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From: reilly@zeta.org.au (Andrew Reilly)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: I need a plain graphing package for FreeBSD --- What is around?
Date: 3 Jul 1997 00:45:57 GMT
Organization: Andrew and Catherine Reilly at home
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In article <5pds0k$5hn@uni00nw.unity.ncsu.edu>,
rdkeys@unity.ncsu.edu (Bob Keys) writes:
> Gnuplot is one possiblility, but I would like to hear of any others that
> folks have ported and got running.
I tried something called "psplot" many years ago while I was
at Uni. It produced really nice plots, but from memory was
kind of difficult to tweak. At the time I had access to
Matlab, so I used that.
There is also {plot,plot3d} | xplot, which are really very
good, but the output is kind of old-fashioned looking,
because it is strictly black lines/white background, and
simple vector characters. I also found that plot would
crash if you tried to plot more than about 10000 points.
Plot and plot3d both have a huge advantage over gnuplot in
that they can read quite a wide range of binary files and
you tell them what to do on the command line. For a long
time I had plot and plot3d wrapped in bash aliases so that I
could re-plot my latest results with a single word command.
I use gnuplot now despite this, because you can make the
results a bit prettier. It's not that hard to write filters
to translate binary files into gnuplot-ish ASCII, it's just
slow. Hmm. Maybe I should have a look at tweaking the
gnuplot interface to build a plot-style file plotter. Naah,
I've got better things to do.
If you find something better than these suggestions, please
write back. I'm interested.
--
Andrew.
"There is no new knowledge, only endless, sublime, recapitulation."
-- the venerable Jeorgi in Umberto Eco's "The Name of the Rose"