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From: wwm@wa8tzg.mi.org (Bill Meahan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: Re: looking for graph software
Keywords: software wanted
Message-ID: <1991Feb8.001452.720@wa8tzg.mi.org>
Date: 8 Feb 91 00:14:52 GMT
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In article <11908@helios.TAMU.EDU> n177ac@tamuts.tamu.edu (Daryl Biberdorf) writes:
>In article <28@pute.UUCP> jwalp@pute.UUCP (+John H. Walpole+) writes:
>>
>>I am looking for a software package that will take a 
>>group of numbers and draw a graph.  Using the numbers input.  
>>This graph could be a bar graph, pie chart, or a line chart.  
>>Is there any pd software for the 3b1 that will do anything
>>like this??
>
>
>I'm not sure exactly what you're doing, but gnuplot may do what you
>want.  It's a gneral-purpose plotting program that's able to
>do various plots of both mathematical functions and data you provide.
>
>It can do basic "plot big dots at the data points" plots, "connect
>those points with lines", "draw a smooth curve", "make big dots AND
>connect them with lines", and "use little dots for a scatter plot"
>sorts of things.  The version we have on our VMS system here
>can write output for all sorts of video and plotter/printer devices.
>(I'm not sure what the version on osu/cis provides.)
>
>The file for gnuplot is gnuplot.cpio.Z in the pub/att7300 directory
>on cheops.cis.ohio-state.edu.
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>--Daryl Biberdorf,  n177ac@tamuts.tamu.edu OR
>                    dlb5404@rigel.tamu.edu

There have been two patches to gnuplot since the osu-archive version.  The
later versions have an explicit Makefile for the 3b1.  Works terrific!

Look for gnuplot2.02.tar.Z elsewhere on osu or at other archives.
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