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From: composer@chem.bu.edu (Jeff Kellem)
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Subject: Re: Needed: A Simple Plot Routine
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Date: 6 Apr 91 05:42:38 GMT
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In article <13962@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> ah314368@longs.LANCE.ColoState.EDU (Vincent Huffaker) writes:
 > I need to locate a program to generate simple x-y plots
 > (in postscript).  We're getting a couple of Sun
 > workstations in (SPARC2) and we're standardizing on Postscript.
 > We need a way to make simple plots.
 >
 > Does anybody have any such code (or know of where
 > it can be obtained)?  We have C and FORTRAN compilers.

Check out gnuplot, currently at version 2.0 patchlevel 2.  It is
available via anonymous ftp from cs.duke.edu.  The command language is
easy to use.  Gnuplot can be setup to display/print on various types of
devices, including X windows and PostScript; it comes with a nice array
of supported devices.  A patch to support "dumb" devices was recently
sent to developers and debuggers of gnuplot; I haven't checked it out
yet, but if it works, I would suspect that it would be included in the
next release.  But, on the other hand, I'm only an interested observer.  ;-)

Enjoy...

			-jeff

Jeff Kellem
Internet: composer@chem.bu.edu