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From: david@utzoo.UUCP (David Trueman)
Newsgroups: hacknews
Subject: access to HP plotter simplified 
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Date: Thu, 26-Jan-84 14:18:18 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 26 14:18:18 1984
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A new termcap entry has been added for the line attached to the plotter.
It is called "hpgl"  and basically describes a very dumb terminal.
Plot(1) now recognizes hpgl from the TERM environment variable and invokes
the hpgl(1) filter.  To make a plot, one must sign on to the terminal 
associated with the plotter (currently in the machine room) and simply pipe
any graphical output to plot.  For example,

	graph | plot
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				David Trueman @ U of Toronto Zoology
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