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From: lampard@janus.trl.oz (Greg Lampard)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Needed: A Simple Plot Routine
Message-ID: <27911@janus.trl.oz>
Date: 8 Apr 91 09:17:19 GMT
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In article <11585@ptolemy-ri.ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov>, kthompso@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov (Kevin Thompson) writes:
> 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.
> 
> I like jgraph -- posted to comp.sources.misc on January 5, thus available
> from uunet.uu.net in dir comp.sources.misc or some such.  The author is Jim
> Plank, jsp@princeton.edu.  Written in C, it has a pretty flexible input
> language to specify graph layouts labels etc.
> 
> Kevin Thompson
> --
> kthompso@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov     NASA-Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA

I looked at jgraph, but I prefer gnuplot.  Mostly because the default
graphs look nicer (with two very minor modifications to the PostScript file)
and it supports terminals other than PostScript so you can preview and plot 
graphs with the same package.  Also written in C and has a flexible input
language to control the form of the plot.  

Send mail to pixar!info-gnuplot@sun.com for further information. (I can't
find the ftp address that I got it from, sorry)

Greg

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