ploticus

A script-driven data display engine.

Overview

Modifications

Download information

Overview

ploticus is a data display engine which plots data according to scripts which contain the formatting information. The tool was written by Stephen C. Grubb. Due to its nature as a command-line tool it is also helpful for automatic or just-in-time data processing.

Modifications

The source code is ANSI C and compiles with gcc right out of the box after adapting the makefile: Use the Linux settings, switch on or off the X11 support as needed, and change the X paths to /usr/X11R6.4/lib and /usr/X11R6.4/include, respectively (or wherever you put your X11 libraries).

System requirements

I used the following setup to build the software:

• Windows NT 4.0 SP3 Workstation
• Cygwin (DLL version 1.1.6 or later)
• X11R6.4 libraries

With this setup, make runs smoothly.

To manually install the precompiled binaries, simply copy pl.exe and pltab.exe into your Cygwin /usr/local/bin directory and the man files *.1 into your /usr/local/man/man1 directory.

Download information

The original sources can be downloaded here.

The precompiled binaries for Cygwin including the man pages are shipped as cygwin1.1.6-ploticus1.40.tar.gz (577 kb, full version) and cygwin1.1.6-ploticus1.40-nox.tar.gz (556 kb, without X support).