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From: jafortun@vela.acs.oakland.edu (James Fortune)
Subject: Re: GNUplot for MS Windows?
Keywords: pkzip problem solution
Organization: Oakland University, Rochester Michigan.
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 13:28:11 GMT

In article <1992Oct6.005133.15482@netcom.com> wongi@netcom.com (Isaac Wong) writes:
>In article <yrdpd#p@lynx.unm.edu> jdaves@triton.unm.edu (Jonathan Daves-Brody) writes:
>>>>
>>I tried to get that version, but was unable to decompress the executable part
>>of it - pkzip claimed errors.  It did unzip the textfile parts of the zipped
>>file, just not the executables.  Has anybody else had this problem?  Is it
>>a problem with the file on Cica?  Is it a problem with my version of pkzip?
>
>I downloaded it on oct 4th and it worked fine for me (so far)
>
>BTW. it'd be nice if the author would make the source code available too.
>

I got it to work.  It's pretty nice.  The help is also quite easy to use.
I got the program from wuarchive under mirrors2.  Before I got it to work
I tried an older version of pkzip and it reported problems.  I got unzip50.exe
from the other mirror's zip directory and the unzip.exe program that it
produced worked perfectly.

JAF
-- 
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Disclaimer: Not O.U. opinions  -
From: tlim@cats.ucsc.edu (Thanh Hieu Lim)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.gnuplot
Subject: newbie to gnuplot
Date: 2 Oct 1992 03:13:15 GMT
Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
Distribution: world
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i've just started using gnuplot and have a couple questions:
i can plot my data with 'plot "file-name" with <style>' and it
prints it out on the sun workstation.  now my question is how do i
output it to another file in post script or anything else of that
nature.  so basically, how do i save it into a postscript file.

thanks in advance!

-totoro@cats.ucsc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.gnuplot
From: dwagon@nella7.cc.monash.edu.au (Dougal Scott)
Subject: Plotting discontinuities?
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 03:53:38 GMT

I need to plot a function that has a large number of discontinuities, which I
need plotted as discontinuities, rather than having a line between the points
as gnuplot does it now. 

Does anyone now of a way of doing this, or does gnuplot have to be extended?
-- 
Dougal Scott-Dougal.Scott@fcit.monash.edu.au  Faculty of Computing & Info Tech
I am eager for the pleasures of the flesh more    Monash University, Caulfield
than for salvation, my soul is dead, so I shall            Victoria, AUSTRALIA 
look after the flesh. -Carmina Burana
Xref: sparky comp.graphics.gnuplot:64 comp.text.tex:11942
From: rbutera@owlnet.rice.edu (Robert John Butera)
Subject: line styles
Organization: Rice University
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 21:45:31 GMT

Oops - title should have been line types.  Anyway, I'm running
gnuplot using the 'x11' terminal mode.   When I plot multiple
data sets on the same plot, I'll do something like:

plot 'data.set.1' with lines 1,'data.set.2' with lines 2, etc.

However, each line type I try simply comes out as solid black or 
white.  I'm probably just missing something from poring over the docs
too many times, but is there something else I have to set to tell
gnuplot I'm using it in monochrome?  I'd like the line types to
be dotted,dashed,etc. (as in gnugraph).

BTW, is this a valid group to discuss gnugraph issues as well?


-- 
Rob Butera - ECE grad student   Rice University, Houston, TX   rbutera@rice.edu
"On the surface, selling arms to a country that sponsors terrorism, of
 course, clearly, you'd have to argue it's wrong, but it's the exception
 sometimes that proves the rule" - George Bush, 1987
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.gnuplot
From: horst@tasman.cc.utas.edu.au (Horst Stratemeier)
Subject: landscape for hpljii ?
Organization: University of Tasmania, Australia.
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 05:48:59 GMT

Is there a way to define landscape format when you set terminal
to hpljii ?  I've got a rectangular plot where the x-axis is the
long axis and I don't want it to become "compressed" into a square.
I know that I can use the SIZE option but that makes the whole plot
small and it doesn't use the whole page. 

Anything I can do about it?
                                Thanks   Horst

Newsgroups: comp.graphics.gnuplot
From: jdaves@triton.unm.edu (Jonathan Daves-Brody)
Subject: Re: GNUplot for MS Windows?
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 92 17:18:32 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

In article <1992Oct5.161044.18826@dazixco.ingr.com> naftaly@dazixco.ingr.com writes:
>
>In article <5815@tuegate.tue.nl>, ronald@lowt.phys.tue.nl (Ronald Aarts) writes:
>>cjwein@watcgl.uwaterloo.ca (Chris J. Wein) writes:
>>
>>>>Does anyone know of an implementation of gnuplot that will run under MS
>>>>Windows.  I already have the DOS version, but I'd like to have a version
>>>>for Windows that operates much as the X-11 version does.
>>
>>>There is one on ftp.cica.indiana.edu.  I got in the uploads directory a
>>>while back so it has likely moved but it is there.  It works just like the
>>>X11 version!
>>
>>I couldn't find it. Is there somebody out there who has a more precise pointer
>>to this MS-Windows version of GnuPlot.
>>
>>By the way: I'd also appreciate a pointer to a recent DOS version (compiled
>>binary) of GNUplot. 
>>
I tried to get that version, but was unable to decompress the executable part
of it - pkzip claimed errors.  It did unzip the textfile parts of the zipped
file, just not the executables.  Has anybody else had this problem?  Is it
a problem with the file on Cica?  Is it a problem with my version of pkzip?
I tried downloading it several times, all with identical results.

I've been waiting for this newsgroup to ask that very question!
From: pk@cs.tut.fi (Kellom{ki Pertti)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.gnuplot
Subject: Re: Current README file
Date: 2 Oct 92 14:35:27
Organization: Tampere Univ. of Technology, Finland.
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: talitiainen.cs.tut.fi
In-reply-to: bcr@cernapo.cern.ch's message of Fri, 2 Oct 1992 10:49:34 GMT

Gnuplot is a program for drawing 2D or 3D plots of mathematical
functions or user supplied data points. It can output to a large
variety of output devices, including X11 windows, VGA graphics in a PC
and PostScript. I think that's about it in a nutshell.

--
Pertti Kellom\"aki (TeX format)  #       These opinions are mine, 
  Tampere Univ. of TeXnology     #              ALL MINE !
      Software Systems Lab       #  (but go ahead and use them, if you like)


Newsgroups: comp.graphics.gnuplot
From: mckay@uhdvx3.dt.uh.edu (Steven McKay)
Subject: gnuplot for djgpp
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41A   
Organization: University of Houston-Downtown
X-Lunar-Date: 4 days, 4 hours, 21 minutes since the new moon
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 16:59:00 GMT

Because of my need for gnuplot to handle large data files on my pc
(>> 64k) and to convert these plots to latex or eepic format, I have
rewritten gnuplot 3.2 so that it can be compiled under djgpp (D.J. Delorie's
GCC++ port to the 386).  It uses libgrx commands for the VGA graphics,
so it does not need the assembly language routines.  I have tried
to rewrite the code so that all you need are patches to the current version
to compile.  

It has some minor problems (mainly with the vgamono driver) that are due
to current limitations of the libgrx libraries.  However, it seems to work
well on the demo plots, and will work for my large data files.

Is this something of general interest?  If you are interested, drop me a 
note.  If this is something that should go to the maintainers, I will send
it there (whereever that is).

                                       S. McKay
                                       Dept. of Computer and Mathematical sci.
                                       UH-Downtown
                                       mckay@dt.uh.edu

Newsgroups: comp.graphics.gnuplot
From: warner@redding.etdesg.trw.com (Jeff Warner)
Subject: Re: What  is and where to get gnuplot.
Organization: TRW, Inc., Redondo Beach...
Date: 2 Oct 92 10:22:45

The new dartmouth anonymous text address is

dartvax.dartmouth.edu (129.170.16.4)


jw
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.gnuplot
From: galick@ceg.uiuc.edu (Albert Galick)
Subject: Re: surface plot on nonuniform rectangular grid?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 21:46:55 GMT

gershon%irit.cs.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Elber Gershon) writes:

>	One can write a simple filter that generates a rectangle grid from
>a non rectangle one. The simple approach would be to compute the value of
>each point in the created uniform grid as a weighted sum of all the nonuniform
>original grid points. The weights can be computed as a (inverse) function
>of the distance computed between the uniform and nonuniform two grid points,
>by some norm. This technique only approximates the original nonuniform grid.
>If it is required to interpolate the points, different methods should be
>used.

There would be no way to guarantee that grid lines fall on important
features of the plot, such as large steps.  Anyway, a nonuniform rectangle
plot is usually chosen that way for a good reason, and an acceptable
uniform approximation would just have too many lines.

What other surface plotting tools are available?
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.gnuplot
From: dwagon@nella14.cc.monash.edu.au (Dougal Scott)
Subject: Re: Plotting discontinuities?
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 01:36:58 GMT

shirono@ssd.csd.harris.com (Roberto Shironoshita) writes:

>In article <dwagon.717998018@nella7.cc.monash.edu.au> dwagon@nella7.cc.monash.edu.au (Dougal Scott) writes:

>> I need to plot a function that has a large number of discontinuities, which I
>> need plotted as discontinuities, rather than having a line between the points
>> as gnuplot does it now. 

>Put a blank line in the data file where each discontinuity goes.  This is
>documented under 'plot data-file'.


The problem is that I am not plotting from data files, I am plotting from
functions. 
-- 
Dougal Scott-Dougal.Scott@fcit.monash.edu.au  Faculty of Computing & Info Tech
I am eager for the pleasures of the flesh more    Monash University, Caulfield
than for salvation, my soul is dead, so I shall            Victoria, AUSTRALIA 
look after the flesh. -Carmina Burana
From: rmj@jupiter.SLAC.Stanford.EDU (Roger M. Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.gnuplot
Subject: Hidden Lines
Date: 1 Oct 92 22:04:09 GMT
Article-I.D.: unixhub.BvGqMx.8n5
Distribution: usa
Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center



          Dear Users,


               Is it possible to obtain a hidden line 3D-Plot with Gnuplot?
          Or is this options being developed?

               Many thanks.

          Yours,

               Roger M. Jones

          ____________________________________________________________


               R. M. Jones
               SLAC, Bin 26
               Stanford Univ.
               P.O.Box 4349

               rmj@unixhub.slac.stanford.edu

          ____________________________________________________________
From: bandari@cs.ubc.ca (Esfandiar Bandari)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.gnuplot
Subject: writing PostScript and Hidden Surface Removal
Date: 2 Oct 1992 01:23:12 GMT
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Distribution: world
Reply-To: bandari@cs.ubc.ca (Esfandiar Bandari)
NNTP-Posting-Host: fiji.cs.ubc.ca


Two questions from a naive user. 

	1. How do I convert a file containing gnuplot data into PostScript? 
	(or even get gnuplot to write postscript files)

	2. Is there a way to tell gnuplot to do hidden surface removal?

Please reply by email.  Thanks in advance.

					--- Esfandiar
From: tdunbar@vttcf.cc.vt.edu (Thomas Dunbar)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.gnuplot
Subject: Re: Gnuplot on LINUX with X11
Date: 2 Oct 92 03:20:09 GMT
Organization: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA


 the gnuplot src at tsx-11.mit.edu (dir /pub/linux/sources/usr.bin) 
works fine with X.
 thomas
From: gregory@halcyon.com (Gregory Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.gnuplot
Subject: Re: How to save as a GIF (of other image format)?
Date: 6 Oct 92 00:14:08 GMT
Distribution: comp.graphics.gnuplot
Organization: The 23:00 News and Mail Service

In article <1992Oct5.095038.20275@cc.ic.ac.uk> eshc@elijah.ee.ic.ac.uk (Eric Cheung) writes:
>Peter VonKaenel (vonk@cs.rochester.edu) wrote:
>
>Firstly, gnuplot can write ppm (portable pixmap) files.  I don't use OS/2,
>so can't suggest converter.  But I use 'xv' on the Sun.
>
>Also, you can use 'ghostscript' to convert from ps to a variety of graphics
>formats.  Again, don't know availablity on OS/2, but definitly DOS, Windows and
>UNIX versions exists.
>
>I hope this isn't too much 'such and such is good, but you can't use it'.
>I just guess you can use DOS as well?  If not, my apology.
>Oh, ghostscript is in simtel20, postscript drirectory, gs252*.zip.
>
>Eric

 ghostscript is available for OS2 and should be found on ftp-os2.nmsu.edu



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|  gregory@bcstec.boeing.com    |   run OS2 I don't need it....."
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From: mwm+@A.GP.CS.CMU.EDU (Mark Maimone)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.gnuplot
Subject: changing point size?
Date: 4 Oct 92 00:57:49 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.BvKo0F.67H.1
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon
Originator: mwm@A.GP.CS.CMU.EDU


	Does some version of GNUplot let me alter the size of the point
being plotted on an individual basis?  I want to do a scatter plot of lots
of points, but some need to stand out more than others.  What I'd like to do
is plot some as larger circles (maybe twice the diameter of the default), or
different colors.  Can this be done?  I know one alternative is to split my
scatter plot into separate files and plot with "using n", but I'd rather
have all that information in the data file.  Any ideas?

	What I basically want is another plot option similar to "errorbars",
something like "varyingpoints".  In general, I'd like to let the data
determine its display type as well as position (using the extra value to
encode point size, color, errorbar height, whatever).

	On another tack, are there any plans for adding histograms, pie
charts, any other flashy ways of presenting data?
-- 
Mark Maimone				phone: +1 (412) 268 - 7698
Carnegie Mellon Computer Science	email: mwm@cmu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.gnuplot
From: wongi@netcom.com (Isaac Wong)
Subject: Re: GNUplot for MS Windows?
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 00:51:33 GMT

In article <yrdpd#p@lynx.unm.edu> jdaves@triton.unm.edu (Jonathan Daves-Brody) writes:
>>>
>I tried to get that version, but was unable to decompress the executable part
>of it - pkzip claimed errors.  It did unzip the textfile parts of the zipped
>file, just not the executables.  Has anybody else had this problem?  Is it
>a problem with the file on Cica?  Is it a problem with my version of pkzip?

I downloaded it on oct 4th and it worked fine for me (so far)

BTW. it'd be nice if the author would make the source code available too.



Newsgroups: comp.graphics.gnuplot
From: johnh@ficus.cs.ucla.edu (John Heidemann)
Subject: command-line oriented gnuplot front-end
Organization: UCLA, Computer Science Department
Date:  2 Oct 92 06:35:14 GMT


I have always loved the quality of Gnuplot graphs,
but I've never liked the interactive interface.
Even though it's getting nearly as powerful as my
shell (with command line editing, variables, functions,
and backquote-substition, can looping constructs be far away?),
I don't really want to use another pseudo-shell.
After doing a bunch of plots recently I finally 
put together a command-line-oriented front end.

The front-end replaces the "plot" file with command line arguments
and allows data to be piped in to the program, giving
gnuplot more of the feel of standard Unix graph.
(Although not the look.  I don't need USL suing ME.)
For example, the plot file:

        set output 'plot-system.epsf'
        set xlabel "Number of layers"
        set ylabel "Overhead per layer (percent)"
        set xrange [0:6]
        set yrange [-4:16]
        set key 2,14
        plot 'cp,sys.points' title "cp sys" with linespoints 1

becomes:

	gnuplotfront \
		-set xlabel "Number of layers" \
		-set ylabel "Percent overhead" \
	        -set xrange [0:6] -set yrange [-4:16] \
		-set key 2,14 -title "cp sys" \
	        -with linespoints 1

with data coming in stdin and the postscript output (default)
going to stdout, so I can put it in a pipeline:

<harry scripts to generate data> | gnuplotfront -harry args | ghostview


Currently, the front-end does just enough to get what I need done.
If there are enough people out there who would be interested
in such an interface, I might release it to the net.

Let me know (via e-mail) if you would like such an interface.  (People
with Perl and an interest to alpha-test software are particuarly
welcome.)  And if you think this is a stupid idea, don't bother to
send me mail---you can glory in gnuplot on your VMS or single-tasking
OS computer if you'd like---I prefer pipes.


   -John Heidemann
    UCLA Ficus Project

Newsgroups: comp.graphics.gnuplot
From: jdell@benazir.mit.edu (John Ellithorpe)
Subject: Multiple plots on single page
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Distribution: comp.graphics.gnuplot
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 15:35:41 GMT

Hi,

I'm trying to plot, say, 2 plots on the same screen.  I don't want the plots
on top of each other.  I want them side by side.  Is this possible?  I looked
in the gnuplot manual, but couldn't find anything.  I'm using gnuplot 3.2
on a Sun SPARC, with SunOS 4.1.[12], with the X11 driver, but I would also
like this option on my postscript output as well.

John
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Newsgroups: comp.graphics.gnuplot
From: naftaly@supergas.dazixco.ingr.com (Naftaly Stramer)
Subject: Re: GNUplot for MS Windows?
Reply-To: naftaly@dazixco.ingr.com
Organization: Dazix
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 16:10:44 GMT


In article <5815@tuegate.tue.nl>, ronald@lowt.phys.tue.nl (Ronald Aarts) writes:
>cjwein@watcgl.uwaterloo.ca (Chris J. Wein) writes:
>
>>>Does anyone know of an implementation of gnuplot that will run under MS
>>>Windows.  I already have the DOS version, but I'd like to have a version
>>>for Windows that operates much as the X-11 version does.
>
>>There is one on ftp.cica.indiana.edu.  I got in the uploads directory a
>>while back so it has likely moved but it is there.  It works just like the
>>X11 version!
>
>I couldn't find it. Is there somebody out there who has a more precise pointer
>to this MS-Windows version of GnuPlot.
>
>By the way: I'd also appreciate a pointer to a recent DOS version (compiled
>binary) of GNUplot. 
>
>--
>Ronald Aarts
>Eindhoven University of Technology  | Internet: ronald@lowt.phys.tue.nl
>Physics Department, P.O. Box 513,   |    Phone: +.31.40.474213
>5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands  |      Fax: +.31.40.453587

I thing it is under /pub/pc/win3/uploads/wgnu*

Naftaly

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Please excuse my English
From: ecsgrt@luxor.latrobe.edu.au (Geoffrey Tobin)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.gnuplot
Subject: Fig driver 1.4-TFX : is version 2.1 available?
Date: 3 Oct 92 09:29:41 GMT
Organization: La Trobe University

GnuPlot 3.2 patchlevel 2 (at least as compiled by our sysadm) has a
Fig driver, but it's for version 1.4-TFX.

In the Transfig manual, Micah Beck says that Fig version 2.1
supersedes 1.4-TFX.

I'm testing a Fig to MetaFont translator that requires Fig 2.1, and I
affirm that the "fig" and "bfig" output of GnuPlot 3.2 patchlevel 2,
duly stamped "#Fig 1.4-TFX", is unreadable by the translator.

So, is there a Fig 2.1 output driver for GnuPlot?

(I hope it's better than that in our copy of Xfig, because that
botches polylines, according to the output from Transfig.)

Geoffrey Tobin
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.gnuplot
From: wonga@steam.chem.su.oz.au (Adrian Wong)
Subject: Problems: X11 and HP console
Organization: Dept. of Theoretical Chemistry, University of Sydney
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 06:34:49 GMT

I cannot get gnuplot to use the multi-colour X11 terminal/window on 
our HP 750 console (it works fine on other X terminals). The message
I get is "cannot allocate .... switching to monochrome".

Have any other HP users seen this? Solutions, anyone?
Thanks Adrian.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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University of Sydney NSW 2006 Australia        061-2-692 4137
From: bruno@athena.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (Bruno Hall)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.gnuplot
Subject: broken 'clear' in 3.2?
Date: 1 Oct 92 22:21:44 GMT
Organization: McGill University Broom Closet

Hello.

I can't seem to get 'clear' to work in 3.2, pl 2.  I have tried compiing
on both the suns and on my SYSV-i486, and get the same symptoms on both
architectures; running MIT X11R4.

clear appears to do nothing; the image on the graphics window just sits there.
Running with the -clear option, causes the first plot to come up as expected.
The second (and subsequent) plots come up black, and can be made to appear
by re-sizing the window.  In all other respects, however, gnuplot
appears to be fully functional.

Has anyone else had this problem?

Bruno

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Newsgroups: comp.graphics.gnuplot
From: vonk@cs.rochester.edu (Peter VonKaenel)
Subject: How to save as a GIF (of other image format)?
Organization: Computer Science Department University of Rochester
Distribution: comp.graphics.gnuplot
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 16:24:11 GMT


Hi,

	I usually use gnuplot on a Sun and save graphs as ps to be
included into a TeX document.  Now I have an OS/2 version of gnuplot
and need to stick some graphs into a WordPerfect document.  So, my
question is, how do I save a graph in a form other than ps?  I have
a program that can convert image types, so if I can save a graph as a
GIF, PCX, BMP, etc., from gnuplot, that would be great.  Does anyone
know how to do this (or even how to convert ps to GIF)?

Thanks,
Peter von Kaenel  (vonk@cs.rochester.edu)