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From: ART100@PSUVM.BITNET ("Andy Tefft  862-6728", 814)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Graphing program wanted for non-gs
Message-ID: <8811160225.aa08709@SMOKE.BRL.MIL>
Date: 16 Nov 88 02:07:00 GMT
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Recently I have been doing a number of graphs on this system here and
have found a need to have a similar program for my //c. Nothing fancy,
but some basic features are essential:

ability to enter data as (x,y) pairs and have them plotted, or
specify a function (actually specifying a function is not necessary
if it can read a plain text file, since i can just write a quick
applesoft prog. to write x,y pairs into a file). I have tried
softgraph but it will only plot specific x values... for example
if i have the data (1,1) (3,5) and (10,1) it will make the x-axis
1...3...10, evenly spaced (understand what i mean??)

automatic and manual axis scaling, with options to plot only part
of a range;

axis labeling;

choice of connecting points or making a scatter plot;

log scales, or ability to enter axis labels manually (so for example
i can just take the log of all the values and then put in labels for
a pseudo-log scale)

one nice feature which isn't necessary is ability to plot a smooth curve
(probably difficult) given not too many points. this is handy but
as i said not necessary (i could plot points and fill in the curve
by hand);

be shareware, freeware, or public domain (i am on a very limited budget)

features which i do NOT need (so don't exclude anything because it doesn't
have these):

color, pie charts, bar graphs, rotation (ie plot it sideways),
automatic labeling of axes with months or days.

It would be handy if it would save the hi-res screen as a binary file.

will apple plot do what i want?? (for those of you not familiar with
this it is an OLD plotting program published by Apple) I have this
at home but not here and I've never really tried to do this with it.
I'll find out over Thanksgiving for sure.

Thanks!


Andy
ART100@psuvm.bitnet or a1t@ecl.psu.edu or ...!psuvax1!psuhcx!a1t
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