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NON-UNIX SYSTEMS
Ploticus was developed on Solaris, a Unix system, and is used
without modification on Linux and other modern unix systems.
If you would like to use ploticus on a Windows/NT system,
you can use one of the following:
NATIVE WIN32 PL.EXE
Ploticus
source code (version 2.01 and later) can be compiled on win32 using
minGW gcc and make.
Source code and precompiled executables are available from the
download page.
Notes:
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pl is invoked from the command line (console).
Use exactly the same command line arguments as with other versions.
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The win32 build has pseudo-GIF, SVG, PostScript, and EPS capability by default.
PNG and other image formats may be added if you have the necessary libraries
on your win32 system.
Interactive viewing of results (X11) is not supported.
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The default directory for temporary files is C:\TEMP.
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No external unix shell commands are automatically issued.
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Under win32, proc getdata file is equivalent to pathname;
no shell expansion is applied.
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While we agree that Microsoft NT's use of spaces in file names is an extremely
innovative and useful feature, ploticus will choke on
file directory names that use embedded spaces.
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Scripts and data files should be plain ascii text and may be named anything;
but there are some
recommended file extensions for scripts
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Versions compiled using MingW can handle scripts and data files that use
MS-DOS CR/LF line termination, but unix builds cannot.
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When tested, PL.EXE is stable for almost all of the examples, but problems may be encountered.
CYGWIN
ploticus may be compiled using the cygwin DLL.
More information.
Advantage: interactive display (X11 emulation) is possible.
Most of the above notes apply.
Ploticus has also been reported to compile successfully under DJGPP.
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