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From: alexlehm@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Alexander Lehmann)
Subject: Re: Comment on GnuPlot V3.2 (under Unix)
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 13:35:40 GMT
Organization: TH Darmstadt

rvenable@helix.nih.gov (Richard M. Venable) writes:
> In article <921105105653.1747@CUCCFA.CCC.COLUMBIA.EDU>,
> MARK@CUCCFA.CCC.COLUMBIA.EDU (T. Mark Reboul) writes:
> |> I have however noted just one minor thing which seems to me like a 
> |> deficiency.... I don't know how easy this would be to change, but it
> |> would be useful if the user could enter a "cd" command of the form:
> |> 
> |> 	cd  "~username/whatever"
> |> 
> |> The tilde spec doesn't seem to be allowed. (Am I doing something
> wrong?)
> 
> The tilde is a construct of the C shell (/bin/csh), and is not
> recognized
> by system calls requiring a pathname.  In some of our programs here at
> NIH
> we substitute the value of the env var HOME for the tilde, which would
> permit   cd "~/whatever"  but not the above syntax.

There are a couple of unix programs that emulate the behaviour of the csh
~user prefix. It should be not that difficult to include that feature into
gnuplot for the unix version. There are however some problems finding the
passwd entries for different types of systems e.g. with NIS.
Since gnuplot 3.3 has just moved into beta stage, this will have to be
considered for 3.4, but I try to keep the suggestion in mind.

> 
> |> I also noticed that even this command:
> |> 
> |> 	!  cd  ~username
> |> 
> |> doesn't work, as the "system" function call generated by my command 
> |> won't handle the tilde.
> 
> The above should work if /bin/csh is your login shell; however, the !
> operation spawns a new subshell, so that even if you do change
> directories,
> as soon as the subshell exits, you're back in the directory you were in
> before.

The problem with the above command is the following. If you shell is csh,
the cd command will be executed correctly, but since the new csh is started as
a childprocess, the changes in the csh will not affect the setting in gnuplot.
That is any cd command will fail is executed by ! (as do setenvs).

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Newsgroups: comp.graphics.gnuplot
From: dwabra@watson.ibm.com (David Abraham)
Subject: Re: How to automatically place gnuplot window (Unix)?
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 15:21:59 GMT
Distribution: comp
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: IBM, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598

In article <1992Nov5.051342.16622@alw.nih.gov> rvenable@helix.nih.gov (Richard M. Venable) writes:

   When using gnuplot 3.2 with the X11 (or x11) term devices, you can pass X
   toolkit options as additional command line arguments when invoking gnuplot,
   e.g. assuming 'file.gnu' contains a gnuplot command stream:

   gnuplot -font 8x13bold -geometry 900x500+100+20  file.gnu

   When a plot window is opened by a plot, splot, or replot command using one of
   the X term devices, it will be 900x500 pixels, offset from the left by 100
   pixels, and 20 pixels from the top.  The + signs may be changed to - signs to
   indicate offsets from the right and bottom edges of the screen.  The text will
   use the 8x13bold fixed font.  These kinds of options may also be loaded into
   a database read by the X server on the host used for displaying the plot using
   the  xrdb  command; see the gnuplot man page for suggested defaults.

Good general advice!  I also found out from several people responding
privately to my previous post (you know who you are!) that the window
manager is responsible for such preferences
as whether you click a window into being, colors,
opacity and other goodies.  On my machine (SGI Iris 4D35 running 4.01
IRIX) I change a line in /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/4DWm to read:

*interactivePosition:   false

This sets the local display to always behave that way.  In fact, until
I did this explicit entries in my .Xdefaults file as to position of
the gnuplot window did NOT work!  

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From: reinitz-john@cs.yale.edu (John Reinitz)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.gnuplot
Subject: Postscript scaling prob., V3.0 patchlevel 0 vs. 1
Date: 5 Nov 1992 18:02:06 -0500
Organization: Yale University Theoretical Biology Collective
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: nyaya.systemsz.cs.yale.edu
Summary: works in 0, not 1.
Keywords: scaling size

First off, I would like to thank the developers of this way cool
program, particularly Russell Lang who wrote the postscript driver 
which I have just used to make an ms. for publication :-)

I found some odd behavior wrt scaling in V 3.0 patchlevel 1
that *is* *not* found in patchlevel 0. In patchlevel 0, when
I do this:

set terminal postscript portrait monochrome "Helvetica-Bold" 24
set size 0.3,0.36

I get a nice little graph with properly shrunken letters
suitable for making a multipanel figure. But when I do it
in V3.0 patchlevel 1, I get a mess with the letters at normal
24 pt size.

Maybe this is fixed in V3,2

If not, and there is someone who has built up a head of steam wrt
this program maybe that individual could fix it. Alternatively, since
getting this to work is of some importance to me, maybe *I* could
fix it. *However*, although I write my own scientific code, I don't
have any experience coding patches for programs used by a lot of people,
and I will need some email advice.

Thanks!!!!

John Reinitz

PS I have two other questions, but I think they belong under another
subject heading.
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From: psv@hyetos.Stanford.EDU (Panagiotis Vlachopoulos)
Subject: gnuplot Manual...
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 15:03:42 PST
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11]
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.gnuplot
Hello,
Could you please tell me where from could I obtain gnuplot manual?
Thanx
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Newsgroups: comp.graphics.gnuplot
From: sents@dixie.com (Jeff Sents)
Subject: Printing Lineplots
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 00:04:52 GMT
Organization: Dixie Communications Public Access.  The Mouth of the South.

 Having gotten gnuplot working reasonably well on a HP-UX system, using
 X-terminals, vt220's, vt340's, and a Laserjet IIIsi, the there's only
 one thing I need to do that I haven'y been able to figure out. When
 plotting two or more functions on a single plot, is there any way to
 alter the line style (ie dots, dashes,solid, etc) on a hardcopy?
 When plotting on the screen each is a different color. But a LJIII prints
 only in black&white!

 Thanks in advance!


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Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 10:56:53 -0500
From: MARK@CUCCFA.CCC.COLUMBIA.EDU (T. Mark Reboul)
Subject: Comment on GnuPlot V3.2 (under Unix)
X-Vmsmail-To: SMTP%"info-gnuplot@ames.arc.nasa.gov"
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.gnuplot
I just got exposed to your GNUPLOT program, have been trying it out
on a DEC Ultrix system in conjunction with my X terminal, and I really
think it's great!

I have however noted just one minor thing which seems to me like a 
deficiency.... I don't know how easy this would be to change, but it
would be useful if the user could enter a "cd" command of the form:

	cd  "~username/whatever"

The tilde spec doesn't seem to be allowed. (Am I doing something wrong?)
I also noticed that even this command:

	!  cd  ~username

doesn't work, as the "system" function call generated by my command 
won't handle the tilde.

Mark Reboul
Columbia University
Cancer Center Computing Facility
mark@cuccfa.ccc.columbia.edu
From: rjkm@ph-cip.uni-koeln.de (Ralph Metzler)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.gnuplot
Subject: Re: gnuplot query clarification
Date: 12 Nov 92 15:22:29
Organization: Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Cologne, F. R.
	Germany
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In-reply-to: ENGELLAND@FSDVX2.ARC.NASA.GOV.'s message of Wed, 11 Nov 1992 17:20:58 -0800


>In response to my questions David Guevara submitted the following query to
>info-gnuplot:
>
>> Is there a way to do multi-variable plots on the same graph under gnuplot?
>> Cross variable plotting capability?  If not, is there any plans in the
>> near future to add these capabilities to gnuplot?  Thanks for any help
>> (or info) you can give me...
>
>Thanks for the response to this query, but I'm afraid that I wasn't clear in
>expressing my requirements to David.  I need to generate multiple graphs or
>plots per page.  That is, several plots stacked vertically on a page as shown
>below:
>
>     10 |**        *****         *
>        |  ********     *       * *****
>        |                *******
>      0 |-------------------------------
>        0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10
>
>      5 |             *****************
>        |            *
>        |************
>      0 |-------------------------------
>        0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10
>
>     15 |****                 ***
>        |    *               *   *
>        |     ***************     *****
>      0 |-------------------------------
>        0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10
>
>Specifically, I need to create strip chart style plots and frequency response
>(Bode) plots.  From what I've seen gnuplot can only create one plot/graph/grid
>per page.  Is this correct?  Are there any plans to include provisions for
>multiple plots/graphs/grids per page?  Thanks for your assistance.
>
>-- Shawn Engelland,
>   Internet: engelland@fsdvx2.arc.nasa.gov

To get several gnuplot-plots on one page I let gnuplot export to LaTeX
or pictex and then I include it into a LaTeX-file.
By adjusting the plotsize in your gnuplot-script and the separations LaTeX
uses between the pictures, you can get it to print as many plots you want
on one page.

I hope this is of any help, since I don't know if you use TeX at all.


Ralph 
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Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 19:53:22 CST
From: peram@cs.tamu.edu (Suresh B Peram)
Subject: I have a problem with sun_x11
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.gnuplot
I compiled gnuplot with 'make sun_x11' and
everything compiled fine.  But, when I try
to plot, it says 'gnuplot_x11' not found.
It is true that gnuplot_x11 was not created.
How do I rectify this?

I thought sun_x11 automatically created something
that could be used with X automatically.  Do we
still need 2 programs ?

thanks,

Suresh
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.gnuplot
From: luchini@nhmfl.fsu.edu (Marco Luchini)
Subject: Re: gnuplot query clarification
Organization: Department of Physics, Florida State University, Tallahassee
	32306, USA
Date: 13 Nov 92 21:28:35

In article <921111172058.20200eac@FSDVX2.ARC.NASA.GOV> ENGELLAND@FSDVX2.ARC.NASA.GOV. (.((\) (Shawn Engelland ** NASA Ames ** \(415\)604-5271) writes:


> expressing my requirements to David.  I need to generate multiple graphs or
> plots per page.  That is, several plots stacked vertically on a page as shown
> below:

XVgr aka ACE/gr will do this for you and much more (including the
histograms requested in another thread).  The official site is 

ftp.ccalmr.ogi.edu [129.95.72.34] in /CCALMR/pub/acegr/xvgr-2.09.tar.Z

However it does require XView 2.0 or 3.0 so you may have problems
building it on machines other than Suns.  XView can be gotten from
export.lcs.mit.edu as usual.


Ciao,							Marco

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Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 19:49:50 +0100
From: hemery@lifl.fr
Subject: drawing histogram graphics
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.gnuplot
Hello,

I am looking for tool like gnuplot, for drawing histogram graphics.

Do you know where I can find this kind of tool ?

Advanced thanks.

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From: eanv20@castle.ed.ac.uk (John Woods)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.gnuplot
Subject: Re: Can't find Windows GNUPlot
Date: 12 Nov 92 12:49:08 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University

Hah!  I'm not the only one who gets lost trying to work out whho said
what in these triple forwarded messages!  It was me with the problem
and it seems to have been a corrupted ftp or hhcp problem.  I did
exactly the same process today & it works.  Thanks ...

				...John Woods
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Newsgroups: comp.graphics.gnuplot
Subject: Re: simple splot question...
From: Robert L. Divany <RLD@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 16:18:58 EST
 <1992Nov11.063152.15928@leland.Stanford.EDU> <7mcqmvn@lynx.unm.edu>
Distribution: na
Organization: Penn State University

In article <7mcqmvn@lynx.unm.edu>, jdaves@triton.unm.edu (Jonathan Daves-Brody)
says:
>
>In article <1992Nov11.063152.15928@leland.Stanford.EDU>                       U
>wolf@leland.Stanford.ED
>(Andy Wolfsberg) writes:
>>In article <JACKSON.92Nov9120154@pallas.phobos.sscl.uwo.ca>
>jackson@pallas.phobos.sscl.uwo.ca (Peter L. Jackson) writes:
>>>
>>>I would like to use splot to contour and draw a surface of gridded
>>>data read from a file. Is this possible?  All I can do so far is plot
>>>the actual data points. Here is what I do:
>>>
>>>set parametric
>>>set surface
>>>splot "test.data"
>>>
>>>which plots the data points, but no surface connecting them.
>>>
  (stuff deleted)
>The data file should consist of blocks of point triplets.  Each block
>should be the same number of lines long, and each block should be separated
>from the other blocks by a CR/LF.  Each block represents a line along the
>surface in one direction.  If the blocks are all the same length, gnuplot
>assumes a bunch of parallel lines (or something).
more stuff deleted

     I usually just follow the  output of the block of triplets with
  a blank line with a statement like the following.

           write(iounit,*)

     And then use a gnuplot command like

           splot "datafile" w l
     (the w l is short for with lines)


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COMMUNICATIONS & SPACE SCIENCES LAB.
Penn State University
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.gnuplot
From: psm@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU (Phil Malin)
Subject: Help with splot mesh.
Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 07:19:14 GMT

Hi all.

I've just got wgnuplot (gnuplot for windows) up and running.  I was wondering
if anyone knows how to adjust the mesh interval on 3D surface plots, or if
it's possible.  Thanks for any help.

Phil Malin.
psm@mullian.ee.mu.oz.au
Hi

I'm intending to use gnuplot for some simulation graphics. The data is
written to a file by a simulator, from which I would like to generate
the diagrams. However, I couldn't find a way to use a file with plot
in the format (x,y1,y2,...,yn), i.e. to have several y-values per x-value.

I'm working with gnuplot 3.0. If this feature is really not existing,
it might be a very helpful one for many users. In case I overlooked
something in the manual, could you tell me how to do this?

Greetings

----MATTHIAS


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From: isaac@frodo.Physics.McGill.CA (Martin-D. Lacasse)
Subject: data manipulation and fitting
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 02:07:27 EST
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL0]
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.gnuplot
Hi everyone!

	If you use GNUPLOT and do day to day fitting (linear or
	non-linear), Fourier transforms, column manipulations
	and plotting (and moreover, you hate awk) then this might
	interest you.

	In course of my (student) work, I had to deal with a
	*lot* of data files to fit, modify, plot, Fourier transform,
	etc. This lead me (over the last year) to write a mathematical
	front end to GNUPLOT. At first, this program was built for
	a particular personal need, but very fast it spread in our research
	group and I soon had to answer requests for further developments.

	Basically, the program runs with GNUPLOT (version 3.2
	is better) without any modification. It allows the user to
	use the syntax of C-shell for having aliases, while and
	foreach loops. Macros can also be defined. This is how I
	dealt with the multiple files to transform/fit/plot. This is
	particularly useful when one has to fit the parameters obtained
	from a series of previous fits. For the data (column)
	manipulation, the program uses a C-interpreter I wrote, with
	some particular adaptations. It supports variables, vectors
	(the data columns) as well as strings. All vector assignments are
	implicit loops. Thus, commands like:  x=1; X=x++ define a
	vector X ranging from 1 to the vector size.  Most (if not all)
	C math library functions are available for data manipulation.
	Vectors can be read, saved, appended... and obviously plotted!

	As it stands now, it is only supported on UNIX and compiles
	on AIX, ULTRIX, IRIX, and HPUX.

	It is fully documented, and a series of past applications are
	provided as examples. If you know C and C-shell programming,
	you'll feel at home. If not, you'll find that using it is
	relatively easy.  Although the program is still under
	development, it is in a relatively stable state.

	This program is called FUDGIT and is available by anonymous ftp at
	ftp.physics.mcgill.ca. I'd like to have your feedback concerning
	it.

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Newsgroups: comp.graphics.gnuplot
From: luchini@nhmfl.fsu.edu (Marco Luchini)
Subject: Re: Date format conversion ?
Organization: Department of Physics, Florida State University, Tallahassee
	32306, USA
Distribution: usa
Date: 10 Nov 92 22:03:35

In article <1992Nov10.020411.6892@ans.net> ratner@news.ans.net (Michael Ratner) writes:

> I have a sequence of the following pairs: [<date> <value>], where
> <date> is expressed as the number of seconds elapsed since the
> beginning of UNIX era (Jan 1 00:00 1970).  Dates are not continuous,
> meaning that there's a gap between consecutive values of <date>.
> How do I get normal-looking dates on the plot as range markings for
> the "date" axis ?  Something like "Oct 1 10:15:34" instead of 74938183
> (or, 75*10**6, rather) is what I need.  Is it at all possible ?  Your
> help is very much appreciated.  Thanks.
> 
> 							-- Mike Ratner
> 
> 
> P.S.  If it's impossible to do with GNUPLOT, maybe you know of some
>       other graphics package that allows to do that together with
>       being able to produce PostScript files with plots
>       non-interactively ?

Xvgr (a.k.a. ACE/gr) will do all this for you and much more.  The
official site is ftp.ccalmr.ogi.edu [129.95.72.34] in
/CCALMR/pub/acegr/xvgr-2.09.tar.Z.  I've found that 2.09 core dumps
somewhat more often than 2.08, however.  I quote from the man page
below.  If you can't run it (for lack of X, xview or whatever) you may
still want to look at the bits of code that translate Julian dates to
all the various formats.


Ciao,							Marco

DESCRIPTION
     ACE/gr is a data/function plotting tool for workstations  or
     X-terminals using X.  A few of its features are:

     +    Polynomial  regression,  splines,   running   averages,
          DFT/FFT, cross/auto-correlation.

     +    Plots up to 10 graphs with 30 datasets per graph.

     +    User-defined scaling, tick marks, labels, symbols, line
          styles, colors.

     +    Batch mode for unattended plotting.

     +    Read and write parameters used during a session.

     +    Support through device independent graphic drivers  for
          PostScript, and FrameMaker .mif format.

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From: mueller@delta.cs.fsu.edu (Frank Mueller)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.gnuplot
Subject: Bar Charts -> FAQ?
Date: 12 Nov 92 19:29:37 GMT
Article-I.D.: sun13.11318
Organization: Florida State University Computer Science

This is probably a FAQ, but I couldn't find a useful hint anywhere.

1) Can I generate bar charts with gnuplot (and fill bars with different shades)?

2) Is there any other "free" package (which doesn't use Motif, but may use X)
   to draw bar charts?

Please post or e-mail.

Thanks,

Frank
mueller@cs.fsu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.gnuplot
From: rick@mel1.geg.mot.com (Rick Rankin)
Subject: Release 3.3 time frame
Organization: Motorola, inc. - Scottsdale, AZ
Distribution: comp
Date: 06 Nov 92 15:27:14 GMT

Is anyone aware of a time frame for the release of gnuplot 3.3?

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