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From: phd_ivo@gsbacd.uchicago.edu
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Subject: Re: Simple, fast, x-y plotting package??
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Date: 20 Oct 90 18:20:04 GMT
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In article <1990Oct20.012105.9207@portia.Stanford.EDU>, kocks@jessica.stanford.edu (Peter Kocks) writes...
 
>I am thinking of buying a next machine and I absolutely must have a
>simple program to plot x against y1,y2,y3 etc.

Doug Bates has written a program for NeXT that can rotate 3-d points, ala
datadesk on the mac. It sits in one of the archives, so you can just pull it.
Gnu-plot compiles right withou modifications, and you can view it with any
tek4014 emulator (of course, postscript has a variety of utilities to convert).
X has been ported to the NeXT. In fact, Peter Deutsch will distribute an even
more fancy version any day now. So you can probably just take your X utilities,
compile it on a Sun-3 and run atom (which converts Sun object files to NeXT
object files), or port to NeXT if you want to do a little bit of porting.
I am sure I am omitting other programs here, but I hope this makes the point
that it's not all barren desert out there.

For something commerical: both S (a superb graphical and data handling
environment) and WingZ (a fairly nice spreadsheet) have such capabilities. I
presume so does Improv, so you will get what you need for free if you buy a
NeXT this year.

/ivo welch	ivo@next.agsm.ucla.edu