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From: maw@pur-phy (Michael A. Wittenauer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix,comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Need scientific plotting software for Xenix
Keywords: Xenix, graphics, science
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Date: 11 May 89 22:47:36 GMT
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Organization: Purdue Univ. Phys Dept, W.Lafayette, IN
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Does anyone have, or know where I can acquire, a high level plotting package 
designed for engineering and scientific use, which runs under 
SCO Xenix 286 (2.2.3)?  I am a scientist using Xenix in a laboratory setting 
and would like to be able to plot data on a display monitor as well as on a 
dot matrix printer (NEC p2200). I have the "Computer Graphics Interface" 
which came with the development system; but, it is only a sophisticated set 
of low level graphics subroutines.  Since I am trying to spend my time 
doing science, I do not have the time to write my own high level code.  
Most of the commercially available packages are designed for business 
use; however, my needs do not revolve around pie and bar charts.
The few available engineering/scientific packages are very expensive
(>= $1000) and hence do not fit into my limited budget.  There seem to be
quite a few reasonably priced packages available to run under DOS but none 
that I have found to have been ported to Xenix.
I know that someone has ported "gnuplot" from Unix to Xenix as I saw a Xenix 
archive index listing in which it was included.  Unfortunately, the archive
system (rpp386) apparently went off the air the day before I finally got
a dial out version of uucp to work.  

Has anyone else fought with this problem? Is anyone else even trying
to do laboratory science on a Xenix system? Is "gnuplot" for Xenix available?
Has someone perhaps written plot software which uses SCO's CGI? 

Thanks in advance for the help.

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