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From: mccauley@ecn.purdue.edu (Darrell McCauley)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.gnuplot
Subject: Re: Wanted features
Date: 13 Oct 92 11:39:21 GMT
Followup-To: comp.graphics.gnuplot
Organization: Ag Engineering Dept, Purdue University

In article <Bw0nqG.4E9@rice.edu>, jsmith@owlnet.rice.edu (James Pope Smith) writes:
|> In article <moss_r-121092171148@sushi.chem.su.oz.au> moss_r@summer.chem.su.oz.au (Richard Moss) writes:

|> I agree totally.  I use gnuplot to generate my plots and incorporate them
|> into latex.  I hate the line styles generated by gnuplot for latex.  Those
|> little dots are awful.  I wish there was a dashed line for the latex plots.

One work around is to use the fig driver, edit the lines using xfig
and change the line style from dots to dashes.  Then generate pictex,
latex picture, or whatever.

I recall seeing on the RCS log posted a while back that a new latex driver
created.  I thought that this log only covered recent changes. If so, 
everbody might ought to "hold their taters" 'til we see the next version.
-- 
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Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 00:05:38 PDT
From: John "V." Langer <jvl@mickey.aero.org>
Posted-Date: Sun, 11 Oct 92 00:05:38 PDT
Subject: Re: Quasi-bar graph technique (long)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.gnuplot
>> gnuplot 3.3 *alpha* has a limited bargraph facility.
>> The following is extracted from 'help set style'
>> 
>>  The `boxes` style is only relevant to 2-d plotting.  It draws 
>>  a box centred about the given x coordinate from the yaxis to the given
>>  y coordinate.   The width of the box is obtained in one of three
>>  ways.  If a data file has a fifth column, this will be used to set
>>  the width of the box.  Otherwise, if a width has been set using the
>>  `set boxwidth` command, this will be used.  Otherwise the width of each
>>  box will be calculated automatically so that it touches the adjacent 
>>  boxes.  Another style called `boxerrorbars` is also available and is 
>>  only  relevant to 2-d data file plotting.  This style is a combination 
>>  of the `boxes` and `errorbars` styles.

Why the dependence on a fifth column?  I think that the column specifying
box-widths, if any, should be specifiable to the user.  E.g.,

                plot "datafile" using 26:31:15

where columne 26 has the x data, column 31 has the y data, and column 15
has the widths.  

In practice, however, I suspect that most folks using bar graphs would prefer
to have the width calculated automatically.  Thus I would recommend the
following default structure (essentially the inverse of that described above):

            (1)  the widths are auto-calculated, UNLESS
            (2)  the set boxwidth command is used, in which case
                 the boxwidth value overrides, OR
            (3)  if the boxwidth is not set and a third field is indicated
                 by the "using" parameter, this field will be used

                 e.g.  plot "datafile" using 1:4:6
                 e.g.  plot "datafile" using "%f %*f %*f %f %*f %f"

If the presence or absence of a fifth column affects the way the data gets
plotted, the casual user is going to get very confused!

                        -- John Langer

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From: manas@naxos.unice.fr (Richard MANAS)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.gnuplot
Subject: GNUPLOT on VAX VMS
Keywords: GNUPLOT VMS Xwindows
Date: 8 Oct 92 15:32:26 GMT
Reply-To: manas@naxos.unice.fr
Organization: Centre de Ressources Informatiques - U.N.S.A.
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--Hello,

Sometimes, I use  GNUPLOT for VMS version 3.0 on a Vaxstation 4000VLC
I have no problem with REGIS format, but I can not use it with Xwindows

Does anyone know if there is a recently version of GNUPLOT for VMS ?

Thank a lot

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Newsgroups: comp.graphics.gnuplot
From: rjl@fawlty6.eng.monash.edu.au (Russell Lang)
Subject: Re: MS-Windows version
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 23:16:14 GMT

cgh6m@darwin.clas.Virginia.EDU (Craig G. Hocker) writes:

>I appreciate the work of those that port programs to different
>environments, but may I ask exactly what is the point of porting
>gnuplot to MS-Windows if it is still limited to 64K like the DOS version?

Where did you see mention of a 64k limit?
If it is in a MS-Windows EXE then you have an antique version.

The limits to data file size are now:
1.  available memory, instead of one 64k segment.
2.  64k points, since array indexing must be done with 16 bit integers.

The above applies to both MS-Windows and DOS for gnuplot 3.3.


-- 
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Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering
Monash University, Australia
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.gnuplot
From: russ@howard.nafb.trw.com (Russ Vreeland)
Subject: Re: compiling gnuplot for Openwindows
Organization: TRW Ballistic Missiles Div. San Bernadino, CA
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 18:40:27 GMT

Well, I've got gnuplot working with openwindows v3 now.
Thanks to all the people who emailed me advice, makefiles, etc..
The names were too numerous for me to respond to each, but 
Thommy M. MALMSTR\M, you were very helpful.

With the 3.2 version of gnuplot it was my experience that the
only thing that needs to be done to the makefile to get it to run
in the SunOS / Openlook environment is to have the X11INCLUDES
defined ... in my case this was X11INCLUDES = -I/usr/openwin/include.
Then, make sun_x11 does what it should.

The problem was in running the dang thing. Where does it say that you
don`t run "gnuplot_x11" but instead run gnuplot and set term x11 ???
When I see an executable called gnuplot_x11 being created ... well what
would you think? Only after I noticed gnuplot was being written over and the
size was changing (from the make sun) did I think to run gnuplot.

A simple gotcha that can be corrected by communication I suppose.
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Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 07:53:00 -0700
From: ramesh@sink.la.asu.edu (Ramesh Santhanam)
Subject: HELP ON HPGL INTERPRETOR
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.gnuplot
Does there exist a HPGL interpretor or pcl interpretor similar
to GHOSTSCRIPT ???
Thanks.
ramesh.
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From: rlove@den.mmc.com (Robert B. Love 7-1842)
Subject: File Difference
Keywords: compare, difference 
Organization: Martin Marietta Astronautics, Denver
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 16:55:07 GMT

Its easy to plot the two curves side by side but I want to difference them.

Thanx for the help.



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From: krouth@slee01.srl.ford.com (Kevin Routh)
Subject: Re: GNUplot for MS Windows?
Organization: Ford Motor Company Scientific Research Labs, Dearborn, MI
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 17:05:28 GMT

dkyoon@alnitak.usc.edu (Dae-Kyun Yoon) writes:
: krouth@slee01.srl.ford.com (Kevin Routh) writes:
: 
: >I downloaded the file wgnuplot.zip from ftp.cica.indiana.edu (found it
: >in pub/pc/win3/util.  It seems to run OK, but I noticed that is
: >crashes when trying the plot with "set contour3d".  Any suggestions or
: >comments?  I did not see the source code there.
: 
: I also noticed that wgnuplot crashed whenever I tried hidden line removal.
: Does anybody noticed the same problem ?
: ---
: 
: -- 
: Dae-kyun Yoon
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OOPS!!! You know, I mis-spoke.  My problem WAS with "set hidden", NOT
"set contour3d".  I'm sorry for the mistake.  I do NOT see a problem
in the straight MS-DOS version (3.2).  Again, I am sorry for the
mistake.
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From: ctisc01@mailserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de (Oliver Schurr)
Subject: Labels and tics problem
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11]
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 09:35:12 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.gnuplot
Hi Folks

I want to get very much tics and only 4 labels on the x- and y-axis.
Is there a better way to do this than to use the "set xtics" command with
very much parameters.

E.g. The "xrange" is from 360 to 1010 and the increment of the tics is 10.
     I want labels from 400 to 1000 with an increment of 50.

Is there a better solution than "set xtics (360,370,380,390,"400" 400,...) !!

Many thanks

Oliver Schurr
Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
University of Tuebingen
W-7400 Tuebinggen, FRG
From: bandari@cs.ubc.ca (Esfandiar Bandari)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.gnuplot
Subject: rotating plots and changing the aspect ratio
Date: 15 Oct 1992 08:16:55 GMT
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Distribution: world
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I have couple of questions that may have been asked before:

1). how do I rotate a gnuplot output by 90.  This is because when I "set terminal
postscript" and then "set output foo.ps" and plot (or splot a file) gnuplot
automatically rotates the image by 90 so that its long axis is along the 
lenght of the page.  How do I stop gnuplot from doing that?

2). how do I get gnuPlot to keep the aspect ratio of a parametric plot to
1:1.  

Please REPLY BY MAIL, since I do not read this group regularly.  Thanks in
advance.

					--- Esfandiar
From: jsmith@owlnet.rice.edu (James Pope Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.gnuplot
Subject: Re: Wanted features
Date: 12 Oct 92 16:13:26 GMT
Organization: Rice University

In article <moss_r-121092171148@sushi.chem.su.oz.au> moss_r@summer.chem.su.oz.au (Richard Moss) writes:
>Hi,
>
>it seems since the start of this group, a lot of the articles have been on
>extensions to gnuplot that people would like to see, so I just thought  I'd
>chip in what I'd like to see.
>
>The two things I'd like ( like as in think they would make gnuplot a *lot*
>more useful, for me at least ) are:
>
>      1) multiple plots  - which seems to have been hacked by some
>                           people already ( Steve Cumming if your out 
>                           there, I'd love your code to do this ),
>
>and   2) greek ( at least ) symbols - this I think is a *must* if you
>                           do any sought of scientific work.  Some sought
>                           of implementation of the symbol postscript/X
>                           font would be really helpfull.
>

I agree totally.  I use gnuplot to generate my plots and incorporate them
into latex.  I hate the line styles generated by gnuplot for latex.  Those
little dots are awful.  I wish there was a dashed line for the latex plots.
Also, I notice that the latex generation is extremely inefficient, with 
plotpoints everywhere.  Wouldn't it be simpler to use \line?  It would cut
down the size of the latex plot files as well.  If I want dashed lines, I
need to generate a postscript plot, but then I lose the flexibility of
tex (math symbols and expressions).  If there are alternatives (maybe pictex?),
please reply.

James Smith
jsmith@owlnet.rice.edu
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.gnuplot
From: rshouman@chpc.utexas.edu (Radey Shouman)
Subject: Re: printing plots
Keywords: Norden Patches
Organization: The University of Texas System - CHPC
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 92 22:24:30 GMT

In article <1992Oct10.061230.2266@kurango.cit.gu.edu.au> anthony@kurango.cit.gu.edu.au (Anthony Thyssen) writes:
 ]I would however also change the
 ]
 ]   set output "filename/device"
 ]
 ]to mean the output for `screen' plots and
 ]
 ]   set prt_output "filename/device"
 ]
 ]for the printer.
 ]
 ]This output filename I'd also change to accept the syntax
 ]
 ]   set output "|command"
 ]
 ]so the output can be directed to a command.
 ]
 ]The defaults for gnuplot could then be set (optionally) to say
 ]
 ]  set terminal    x11
 ]  set output      "|gnuplot_x11"
 ]  set printer     postscript
 ]  set prt_output  "|lpr"
 ]
 ]Thus 
 ]   ``plot'' will plot to the terminals file/device/command
 ]&  ``print'' will replot to the printer file/device/command
 ]
 ]This should also eliminate the need for the special coding required
 ]for X windows as it will be part of the main program and not the
 ]actual device driver.
 ]
 ]--- Anthony Thyssen

Coool, now how about:

plot "command|"

so we don't have to make so many pesky little temporary files for
gnuplot to munch?

--Radey Shouman
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Newsgroups: comp.graphics.gnuplot
From: ejk@ux2.cso.uiuc.edu (Ed Kubaitis - CCSO)
Subject: Re: broken 'clear' in 3.2?
Organization: University of Illinois - Urbana
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 12:17:51 GMT

bruno@athena.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (Bruno Hall) writes:
  |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?

There are two things that "wake up" gnuplot_x11 and cause it to display 
(or redisplay) a plot:

	o a "resize" event from the X server (sounds like this works on
	  your systems.)

	o detecting new input from gnuplot

The second one has run into problems on Ultrix systems with DEC windows
and on some SVR3 platforms with botched or incomplete implementations
of the BSD select() system call. There are "ULTRIX_KLUDGE" and
"CRIPPLED_SELECT" build options that try to circumvent these problems,
although to my knowledge they have not been reported on Suns with MIT 
X11R4. You might try building gnuplot with one or the other or both
of these options and see if that helps.

Ed
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From: phalsema@x102a.ess.harris.com (halsema pb 64533)
Subject: Re: compiling gnuplot
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 17:25:12 GMT
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Organization: Harris ESS, Melbourne, Fla.

tkacik@hobbes.hobbes.cs.gmr.com (Tom Tkacik) writes:
: In article AA02464@erctitan.me.wisc.edu, root@erctitan.me.wisc.edu (Jim K. Yu writes:
: > I am trying to compile gnuplot 3.2 on a STARDENT titan computer
: > I copied makefile.unx to Makefile and typed "make x11 TARGET=Install" and
: > the system exited with the following error:
: > 
: > "readline.c: 81: Can't find include file termios.h"
: 
: You should change the Makefile to have '-DSGTTY' included among the CFLAGS.
: I am hoping that your STARDENT does have the file sgtty.h somewhere.

Well, our titan has sgtty.h, but gnuplot 3.2 doesn't refer to it or SGTTY.
When I compiled it for our machine I added a NO_TERMIOS ifdef to readline.c
to jump around the termios include.  Also, I had to rename the accept routine
to something else (I used gaccept) because it conflicted with some
built in routine.  Finally, I couldn't get some of the drivers to compile.
The error message was strange, but after some searching, I finally set it
so that AED and AIFM were not defined and all went well.

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From: jdp@caleb.UUCP (Jim Pritchett)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.gnuplot
Subject: test
Date: 13 Oct 92 06:05:03 GMT
Followup-To: news.announce.newgroups
Organization: is sometimes desirable

Has any traffic started in this newsgroup yet?  I haven't seen any yet, so I'm
not sure if the group is actually getting all the way here.

                                   Thanks,

                                                Jim Pritchett


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From: tkacik@hobbes.hobbes.cs.gmr.com (Tom Tkacik)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.gnuplot
Subject: Re: Installing gnuplot3.2 on a sun Sparc2
Date: 16 Oct 92 17:43:26 GMT
Reply-To: tkacik@hobbes.hobbes.cs.gmr.com
Organization: GM Research Labs

In article AA26201@longs.lance.colostate.edu, dw929591@longs.lance.colostate.edu (Darren Weibler writes:
> 
> Hello.  I have recently received a copy of gnuplot3.2 and have tried
> to install it on a sun running SunOS 4.1.  Everything goes well until
> the libary "plot" is needed, and this I don't seem to have.  Is there
> something else I need to get or am I missing something obvious.

New Sun's do not have the plot library.  That is ok, as you would not want it even
if it were available.  Simply edit the Makefile and remove the -lplot from the
LIBS line, and remove -DUNIXPLOT from the CFLAGS line.  You may also want to check
term.h to make sure that #define UNIXPLOT is commented out.

I believe that in future versions of gnuplot, the plot library will no longer be
there by default.

Good luck.

--
Tom Tkacik
GM Research Labs
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tkacik@kyzyl.mi.org

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From: russ@howard.nafb.trw.com (Russ Vreeland)
Subject: Compiling gnuplot for Openwindows
Organization: TRW Ballistic Missiles Div. San Bernadino, CA
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 92 15:06:03 GMT

I've just got gnuplot running under sunview (make sun) on this
Sparcstation 2. For many reasons, it would be better to run on
Openwindows (v3), not the least of which would be the ability to
capture and import graphs into Framemaker for nifty memos and such.

But I'm an EE easily stultified by Makefiles and the like, and I
don't see how to adjust the Makefile and term.h to get gnuplot to
run in an X11/Openwindows mode on the Sun. When I tried the obvious
(to me) things, the compile bombed not finding the X11 libraries.
I have the full (including X11 lib) set of Openwindows installed -
I even repartitioned the disk to make room for it and now I'm like
totally bummed for sure.

Can anyone help me with this problem?

Other info: Sun OS 4.1.3 : X11 lib is in /usr/openwin/share/include/X11

By the way, this program is an answer to a lot of problems here and I
want to express my appreciation to the authors and caregivers of gnuplot.

Newsgroups: comp.graphics.gnuplot
From: gregd@mel1.geg.mot.com (Greg Davis)
Subject: Re: GNUplot for MS Windows?
Organization: Motorola, inc. - Scottsdale, AZ
Date: 16 Oct 92 06:49:53 GMT
	<1992Oct8.082846.13826@ugle.unit.no>
	<1992Oct8.235151.29349@leland.Stanford.EDU>
	<1992Oct9.071035.26576@ugle.unit.no>

Someone said that the command line edit in the MS Windows version of gnuplot didn't
work.  Well it turns out it does work, just not using the arrow keys.  It uses the
"emacs" edit keys. Here is a breif list:

	Up    arrow:	Ctrl-P
	Dn    arrow:	Ctrl-N
	Left  arrow:	Ctrl-B
	Right arrow:	Ctrl-N

	Home:		Ctrl-A
	End:		Ctrl-E
	Delete:		Ctrl-D
	Delete-to-eol:	Ctrl-K

Only problem with this, is that a line-feed occurs in windws version when the Up
and down arrow is invoked.  This is'nt real clean.  Since this is a beta version,
can you keep the line feed from occuring? (whoever is programming the windows version).

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