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From: patrick@cs.kuleuven.ac.be (Patrick Weemeeuw)
Subject: Bug in gnuplot 3.2
Organization: K. U. Leuven
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 15:27:16 GMT


I noticed the following problem with gnuplot 3.2 (it was not present in 3.0)
[see transcript of session below]:
for the second line plotted, the x coordinates are wrong (everything
shows up near the 0 x coordinate, although the x coordinates are the
same for both lines).
We have the same problem both on a decstation running ultrix 4.2A
and a sparcstation 2 running sunos 4.1.1.
Has anyone a fix for this?

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godfather[299]$ gnuplot commands
ld.so: warning: /usr/openwin/lib/libX11.so.4.3 has older revision than expected 10

godfather[300]$ cat commands
set noborder
set xrange [0:30000]
set data style lines
plot 'data', 'data' using 3
pause -1
godfather[301]$ cat data
133 9 0 8186
3759 18471 0 40930
5880 16407 0 40930
8139 31735 0 40930
11089 2233 0 98232
13833 5849 0 98232
16897 6985 0 98232
19889 1197 0 98232
22121 60211 27072 98232
25120 44077 0 98232
godfather[302]$ 

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From: sents@dixie.com (Jeff Sents)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.gnuplot
Subject: HP Laserjet III
Date: 16 Oct 92 23:06:55 GMT
Organization: Dixie Communications Public Access.  The Mouth of the South.

I just finished my first encounter with gnuplot, by installing it
on a HP-UX Xwindow system. So far things have gone rather smoothly
given by knowledge of HP-U(NI)X. The only thing standing in the way
of it being a truly useable piece of software is the HP LaserJet III
that functions as the systems printer. I haven't been able to find
a driver for the LJ III. If anyone out there could point me in the
right direction I'd very grateful.

Thanks in Advance!


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From: ejk@ux2.cso.uiuc.edu (Ed Kubaitis - CCSO)
Subject: Re: Terminal Type and $DISPLAY
Organization: University of Illinois - Urbana
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 12:03:09 GMT

neve@nlm.nih.gov (Leif Neve) writes:
  |When I run gnuplot with $DISPLAY set in my environment,  the monitor
  |comes up with my terminal set to type X11. I would expect that I would
  |get the same result by starting up gnuplot with the -display option, but I don't.
  |
  |Am I doing something wrong? 
  | 
  |Is this a bug?

More like a missing feature. The default x11 setting when DISPLAY is
defined or TERM is set to 'xterm' was an add-on to the original X
support, and no code was added to do likewise if -display is used. 
Will look at adding it to 3.3.

Ed
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Newsgroups: comp.graphics.gnuplot
From: pete@cs.curtin.edu.au (Pete Staples)
Subject: Re: bar/line/pie graphs
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 01:24:56 GMT

richard@serss0 (Richard A Simm) writes:

>Can I generate Bar/Line/Pie graphs using gnuplot? I'll probably have to
>build a front-end but that shouldn't be a problem (i mean to generate the
>data for gnuplot). From what I've been reading here, Bar and Line shouldn't
>be a problem. But what about Pie? Also, I need support for Color Postscript
>and the graphs need to be filled in.

>Richard
I tried mailing my reply to you but it bounced on back (bummer). 
If you find out how to do bar graphs, histograms etc could you please
e-mail me.

pete@cs.curtin.edu.au (134.7.1.1)
From: jdc@sunset (John Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.gnuplot
Subject: Re: printing plots
Date: 15 Oct 92 13:00:34 GMT
Originator: jdc@sunset.cse.nau.edu

From article <1992Oct15.022941.3722@kurango.cit.gu.edu.au>, by anthony@kurango.cit.gu.edu.au (Anthony Thyssen):
 . . .
> 
> Also instead of a print command which is used for printing variabels
> a set `destination' commadn would be better
> 
> IE:
>      set destination (screen|printer)
>      plot [ screen|printer ] ...
>      replot [ screen|printer ]
> 

Oh, I don't know.  Now you are adding another nasty key word to the plot
command.  Plot's already crowded and a mess syntactically.  The replot
change doesn't seem too bad, but doesn't "print" alone make some sense?

I still agree with Jeff Norden's original idea:

   set printer output "PRN:"         ( or  set printer output "|lpr")
   set printer type POSTSCRIPT
   show printer
   print

Overloading print in this fashion doesn't bother me and seems more
natural for the high school students and undergraduates that I end
up working with.  Jeff, by the way, also introduced a synomym for
print: "display".  I'm not sure that's needed, however.

Jeff, are you here in this news group yet?
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        jdc@sunset.cse.nau.edu      JDC@NAUVAX.UCC.NAU.EDU
From: jdc@sunset (John Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.gnuplot
Subject: Re: bar/line/pie graphs
Date: 12 Oct 92 04:10:32 GMT
Originator: jdc@sunset.cse.nau.edu

From article <pete.718853096@marsh>, by pete@cs.curtin.edu.au (Pete Staples):
> richard@serss0 (Richard A Simm) writes:
> 
>>Can I generate Bar/Line/Pie graphs using gnuplot? I'll probably have to
>>build a front-end but that shouldn't be a problem (i mean to generate the
>>data for gnuplot). From what I've been reading here, Bar and Line shouldn't
>>be a problem. But what about Pie? Also, I need support for Color Postscript
>>and the graphs need to be filled in.
> 
>>Richard
> I tried mailing my reply to you but it bounced on back (bummer). 
> If you find out how to do bar graphs, histograms etc could you please
> e-mail me.
> 
> pete@cs.curtin.edu.au (134.7.1.1)

You know, this question comes up all the time.  And we often hear a 
discussion about where to draw the line on new gnuplot functionality.
Obviously unfilled bar and pie plots of one form or another could be 
put directly into the current gnuplot, Russell has suggested how to
draw boxes already.  Further, I've tried to start a discussion about
adding "fill" to the terminal drivers so such additions could be done
even better.  However, gnuplot itself keeps getting bigger and 
bigger--to the point where we have now started shrinking one version 
to fit into a 640K DOS machine.

It seems to me there might be a good separation point here.  Isn't there
a nice disjoint set of functions that could break away and form another
main program?  Do bar graph and pie chart people need the function evaluator
or the contouring code or polar and parametric modes as they are working on 
their subtasks?  Would "traditional" users want more commands and a
thicker manual as well as larger code space to support stacked 3D bar
graphs?  Would the same user base always understand each other's needs and 
would gnuplot continue to grow in a sane and rationale manner?  

Is it wise to keep adding new functions to one monster program or should 
we consider building a family of gnuplot programs?  Building a family
would also be a good way to clean up some of the code and make it more
"engineered" so that various pieces would be available as separate
software layers: a terminal driver layer, a function evaluation layer,
a parser layer, etc.  Given a set of decent libraries (layers) it
wouldn't be very hard to give birth to another member of the gnuplot
family.  With some care, the family members would even share many external 
traits--enough to say, pass data back and forth between them.

And, an obvious first new member would be "gnupiebars" (well, the name 
may need a *little* work... :-)  

Comments?
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Newsgroups: comp.graphics.gnuplot
From: gerd@zaphod.physik.fu-berlin.de (Gerd Buntkowsky)
Subject: Looking for Landscape driver for Laserjet
Organization: Free University of Berlin, Germany
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 12:53:27 GMT

Hello there,
is there a way to use the hpljii driver in Landscape mode (ie. full paper width
and x-axis on long paper side), or an alternativ .trm file to recompile? 

Thanks in advance
     gerd
gerd@zaphod.physik.fu-berlin.de

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From: zohreh@ee.eng.ohio-state.edu (Ali Motamed)
Subject: GNUPLOT source code.
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 14:06:40 EDT
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11]
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.gnuplot
From: gilligan@bldrdoc.gov (Jonathan M. Gilligan)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.gnuplot
Subject: Re: GNUplot for MS Windows?
Keywords: pkzip problem solution
Date: 10 Oct 92 00:36:28 GMT
Organization: National Institute of Standards and Technology


For those in the US who need unzip50 (to unpack wgnuplot): you don't
need to ftp across the Atlantic. It's also at niord.shsu.edu.

---Jon

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From: jonathan@rubis.geop.ubc.ca (Jonathan Thornburg)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.gnuplot
Subject: positioning of labels/tics/axes
Date: 15 Oct 1992 07:40:28 GMT
Organization: U of Texas at Austin / Physics Dept / Center for Relativity
NNTP-Posting-Host: rubis.astro.ubc.ca
Summary: more control over their positioning and formatting is needed
Keywords: gnuplot 3.* plot label tics position center interior right top

1.	[a minor point]
	x/y axis labels and tics seem married to each other
	-- if I want (say) tics at x=0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,
	but labels at x=0,2,4,6,8,10, I have to specify labels
	at all 11 of the tic positions, with the odd-numbered
	ones empty strings.  Allowing a separate arithmetic
	progression specification of labels and tics would
	make this kind of thing a lot nicer.

2.	[a minor point]
	So far as I can see, x and y axes are forced to be
	at the positions y=0 and x=0 respectively.  Arbitrary
	positions, multiple if desired, should be allowed.
	For example, suppose I have a data set

		# x(degrees)	y(whatever)
		0		3.14159
		10		2.65358
		20		9.79323
		...		...
		90		2.71828

	I might wish to plot it using

		set xrange [-5:95]	# extra range so 0 and 90 plot
					# symbols don't fall on top of
					# y axes
		set xaxisposn 0		# hypothetical new command
					# ==> plots x axis at y=0
		set yaxisposn 0		# ==> plots y axis at x=0
		set yaxisposn 90	# ==> plots another "y axis" at x=90

3.	[a minor point]
	The line style used for x/y axes should be user-specifyable.
	The default is sometimes too light, sometimes too heavy, and
	only sometimes :-) just right...

4.	[a major gripe]
	The labels/tics seem to be forced to be along the
	bottom (for x axis) or left (for y axis) sides of
	the plot box.  Duplicates can be placed along the
	top/right, but so far as I can tell there's no way
	to have (say) labels along the top and/or right
	sides.  Moreover, there doesn't seem to be any way
	to get tics or labels on the x/y axes themselves,
	i.e. in the middle of the plot.  The different
	label/tic positions should be independently selectable,
	since multiple sets of labels/tics on a single plot
	are often used, eg different y labels on left vs
	right sides of the plot box.


- Jonathan Thornburg
  <jonathan@geop.ubc.ca> through mid-November 92, then
  <jonathan@einstein.ph.utexas.edu> or <jonathan@hermes.chpc.utexas.edu>
  [for a few more months] UBC / {Astronomy,Physics}
  [then through Aug/92] U of Texas at Austin / Physics Dept
					     / Center for Relativity
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.gnuplot
From: g8231233@cc.uow.edu.au (Andrew Warner)
Subject: eepic(LaTeX) output from gnuplot
Keywords: eepic,LaTeX,sideways text
Organization: University Of Wollongong
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 92 07:27:18 GMT


Hello everyone,
I am trying to include LaTeX picture environment stuff in my thesis. I am
using gnuplot, on occasion, to produce such output. My problem is this:

How do I get the y-axis label to be plotted vertically (i.e. rotated 90
degrees anticlockwise). I know I can do this with postscript output but
would like the option of using LaTeX instructions, specifically eepic
compatible (or epic or even plain LaTeX if necessary.)

Thank you all in advance for being such wonderful people. I trust you will
all grow old gracefully and that none of you r chooks turn into emus and
kick your dunnies down.

Andrew Warner
Dept. of Physics
Uni. of Wollongong
Wollongong NSW
Australia
g8231233@wampyr.cc.uow.edu.au
or
warner@sci.davinci.uow.edu.au
From: jdc@sunset (John Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.gnuplot
Subject: Re: More plot styles ...
Date: 7 Oct 92 16:52:09 GMT
Originator: jdc@sunset.cse.nau.edu

From article <1992Oct7.043951.9999@newshost.anu.edu.au>, by pte900@jatz.aarnet.edu.au (Peter Elford):
> I use gnuplot to generate network usage graphs in PostScript.
> 
> I use the impulse and line options mostly, but would like to
> also have a "column" and "fill" option. The column option
> would essentially be an impulse with a default and user
> specificiable width. The fill option would be the same as
> the line option, with the area under the line/curve filled
> to the x-axis (by default). The fill would be solid by default,
> but might also be user specifiable to be shaded and/or colour.
> 
> Any chance of such features appearing in a future release.
>  

I'm a little pessimistic on filling with the current gnuplot terminal
drivers.  I did some experiments trying to get good fill patterns
in the gplotlib package I wrote using the existing terminal drivers
and found some problems.  First, if the device is a color device
then fill should be no problem at all.  However, there is no flag
in the terminal driivers to tell you if the current device is a
color device.

For non-color devices I tried to draw patterns based on some assumed
pixel sizes for the device.  I found a value (sorry, I've forgotten
what it was) that I was depending upon to "move the pen over by a
pixel width" and learned from some users that for postscript, TeX, pbm,
and other drivers there is no direct relation ship between pixel sizes and
units in the gnuplot drivers.

Further, discussions with SGI owners leads me to believe that there are
many devices we support which already have very good fill primitives.
Not using these primitives would hence be a mistake.

In my opinion, "fill" in gnuplot would require something like the
point primitives that we have already.  You would have to allow for
devices that know they about color or local primitives and yet provide
a method for filling for devices that are stupid.  (How, for instance
would you fill in the "dumb" terminal driver.)


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Newsgroups: comp.graphics.gnuplot
From: rlove@den.mmc.com (Robert B. Love 7-1842)
Subject: Re: File Difference
Keywords: compare, difference 
Organization: Martin Marietta Astronautics, Denver
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 21:08:29 GMT

I don't know what happened to my 1st post--the head was cut off. I want
to difference two files.  They will be identical in format with the 1st
column having the x values and the 2nd column will have the y values.
What I want is a graph of x vs y1-y2.  Can GNUplot do this?

-- 

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MMAG, Launch Vehicle Software
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Newsgroups: comp.graphics.gnuplot
From: gregd@mel1.schbbs (Greg Davis)
Subject: Data thinning with Gnuplot??
Organization: /mel6/u/gregd/.organization
Distribution: comp.graphics.gnuplot
Date: 7 Oct 92 12:14:30


Does anyone know how to "thin data" with gnuplot?  I have a
data file with about 3000 points in it.  If I do a

            set style linespoints

I get so many point markers I cannot distinguish the curve,
especially if plotting multiple curves.  It would be nice
if there was a flag that said to put the marker every 10th
data point (user selectable) while still plotting lines
between every data point in the file.

I know you can write a thinning program and plot using a
pipe but I would like to see it built into the program.  Seems
like a fairly simple thing to add.

-Greg
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From: jsc@athena.mit.edu (Jin S. Choi)
Subject: hidden3d with multiple graphs
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Distribution: comp
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 00:41:56 GMT

I'm plotting two interweaving functions with hidden3d set.
Unfortunately, it's hard to make out the relationships between the
functions because set hidden3d only removes the hidden lines for each
function separately.  Is there anyway to get gnuplot to remove all
hidden lines?

Is there a FAQ for this group?

Thanks,
-Jin
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Newsgroups: comp.graphics.gnuplot
From: reeves@rocky1 (Malcolm Reeves)
Subject: Re: HELP ON HPGL INTERPRETOR
Reply-To: reeves@rocky1
Organization: University of Saskatchewan
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 02:41:20 GMT

From article <9210121453.AA11860@sink.la.asu.edu>, by ramesh@sink.la.asu.edu (Ramesh Santhanam):
> Does there exist a HPGL interpretor or pcl interpretor similar
> to GHOSTSCRIPT ???
> Thanks.
> ramesh.
>
There is a program called printgl that does a decent job of previewing and
printing HPGL files on a variety of devices. You should be able to find
it with archie or in the index of wuarchive.
Malcolm 
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From: yehavi@vms.huji.ac.il
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.gnuplot
Subject: Gnuplot-X11 for VMS available
Date: 9 Oct 92 07:23:09 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

  Recently there were a few messages here asking about X11 support for Gnuplot
on VMS. Gnuplot-3.2 and up supports it.
  For Gnuplot-3.2: You can find the VMS version (which should compile on Unix
as well...) on VMS.HUJI.AC.IL at the [.LOCAL] directory. The file
GNUPLOT-3-2-VMS.BCK contains only the modified files while the file
GNUPLOT-VMS.BCK is a complete Gnuplot-3.2 release.
  release 3.3 will include these modifications.
                                                     __Yehavi:
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
From: bvh@cse.unl.edu (Obi-Wan)
Subject: Re: Blue screen image processing
Organization: MicroImages, Inc.
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 19:27:05 GMT

In article <1992Oct8.155742.1@cbrown.claremont.edu>, dhosek@cbrown.claremont.edu writes:
> Does anybody know of image processing software which will be able
> to do  "blue screen" effects? i.e., take all occurences of a
> given color in an image and replace them with another image?
> (Like the TV weather guys use.)

The Map and Image Processing System (MIPS) by MicroImages, Inc.  (mentioned
in article 18534) can also do this for single images (not sequences, though).
It currently runs on a PC but will very soon be available on workstations,
also.

Call (402) 477-9554 (voice) or (402) 477-9559 (FAX) for more info.

				-- Obi-Wan

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Newsgroups: comp.graphics
From: doctor@polaris.unm.edu (Doc)
Subject: Help wanted with olvwm andd olwm....
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 92 21:12:09 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque


Could anyone out there please post their .olwmrc or .olvwmrc file?
A frien and I have gotten olvwm to work on a DEC station 5000/120, and
now I'm trying to debug it and figure out mouse button bindings, like
in good old twm ;^)  I didn't think that the docs for olvwm and olwm are that
informative, otherwise I would just read what's there and fix my .olvwmrc.
Also, the only file olvwm reads as my .olvwmrc is my .openwin-menu file....
Thanks in advance....


-Josh 
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
From: dhosek@cbrown.claremont.edu
Subject: Blue screen image processing
Organization: Quixote Digital Typography
Date: 8 Oct 92 15:57:42 PDT

Does anybody know of image processing software which will be able
to do  "blue screen" effects? i.e., take all occurences of a
given color in an image and replace them with another image?
(Like the TV weather guys use.)

Any platform. Any useful image format, just so it can be done.

-dh
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
From: lichtin@olsen.ch (Martin Lichtin)
Subject: PBMPLUS && HP Deskjet 500C
Organization: Olsen & Associates, Zurich, Switzerland
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 17:58:00 GMT


Has someone written a 'ppmtodjc' or similar? 

I know that 'ppmtopj' exists, but I doubt that it works for a Deskjet
500C. Any experiences?
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From: rob@rjck.UUCP (Robert J.C. Kyanko)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Looking for phone number to Alacron
Distribution: world
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 92 11:58:19 GMT
Organization: RJK Enterprises

I looking for the phone number to a company called Alacron.  They make a fast
860 boards for PC's, both XR & XP's.  They also have a 24-bit video card that
plugs directly into the i860 board.  If somebody knows the phone number to this
company, please let me know.  I've seen it in the back of a magazine, but don't
remember where and can't find it.  Thanks for your help in advance.
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             Robert J.C. Kyanko (rob@rjck.UUCP)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: IMAGEIN, hicolour &24bit tester(IMADEMO)
From: djlewis@ualr.edu
Date: 13 Oct 92 12:34:17 GMT
Organization: University of Arkansas at Little Rock

In article <1992Oct12.180445.1@ualr.edu>, djlewis@ualr.edu writes:
> IMAGEIN demonstration disk version 3.0 was uploaded to wuarchive.wustl.edu
> into the pub/MSDOS_UPLOADS directory as the file IMAGEIN.ZIP. if there are two
> imagein.zip files, take the larger (aprox: 1.36 meg), I may have made an 
> accidental partial copy. Pkunzip it into a sub-directory and read the 
> README.1st for directions. This is a WINDOWS program only.
> 	Any troubles with it, let me know. And enjoy. I found the only to
> save your work in this program is a screen capture or 'prtscr' to clipboard.
> 
> IT is GREAT for testing that new hi-colour or 24-bit colour card.
> Don Lewis
> djlewis@ualr.edu
> 
Due to a problem finding a suitable unzipper (unzip50 works) I have uploaded
a self extracting copy called imademo.exe into the same location. I deleted
imagin.*  Hope this is more suitable.
Don