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From: kocks@jessica.stanford.edu (Peter Kocks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Simple, fast, x-y plotting package??
Keywords: plotting, x-y, xgraph
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Date: 20 Oct 90 01:21:05 GMT
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I am thinking of buying a next machine and I absolutely must have a
simple program to plot x against y1,y2,y3 etc.  I realize that
Mathematica can do this, but it is a real pain because it takes too
long  to incorporate data from data files (unless I am missing
something). 

Since I will spend almost all of my money on said "NeXT" machine, I
cannot afford a nice package like "DAN".  I could spend $200.00 for
one, though.  

I currently use xgraph on unix boxes and KaleidaGraph on the Mac.
KaleidaGraph is by far the best I have ever seen.

I also realize I could port xgraph onto the next using XNeXT.  But
this, a) misses the point of buying a next machine b) would make me
dependent on a probable unstable x-windowing system and c) X-windows takes
too much disk space.

Any hints?

Peter Kocks
kocks@jessica.stanford.edu