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From: andre@maestro.htsa.aha.nl (Andre v.d. Vlies)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Simple data plotter
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Date: 18 Jan 91 12:00:12 GMT
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 In article <21223@netcom.UUCP> rcb@netcom.UUCP (Roy Bixler) writes:
 >In article <5727@rex.cs.tulane.edu> dejesus@bourbon.ee.tulane.edu (Francisco X DeJesus) writes:
 >>
 >>    Does anyone know about any simple PD/Shareware utility (or source code)
 >>that will take in a data file of x-y coordinates and just plot them to the
 >>screen?
 >
 >GNU Plot sounds like what you're after.  It will take data files, plot
 >functions and do so on a variety of output devices (such as the ATari
 >ST screen, a file of Postscript output or an Epson printer).  It was
 >recently posted to comp.binaries.atari.st and should also be available
 >on atari.archive.
 >
 
GNUplot is a nice package indeed! BUT .... it refuses to plot negative
points when you give a data file. Worse, it takes a (X,Y) and plots it
like (|X|,|Y|)..... I've send mail about it, but never received any
reply.

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