Notes on using ploticus on non-unix systems


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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

As of October '01, ploticus 2.00 is available as a native win32 executable from the download page. Source code (version 2.01 and later) can be compiled on win32 using mingW. Notes:
  • pl is invoked from the command line (console). Use exactly the same command line arguments as with other versions.
  • This build has pseudo-GIF, PostScript, and EPS capability. Interactive viewing of results (X11) is not supported.
  • The default directory for temporary files is C:\TEMP.
  • No external unix shell commands are automatically issued.
  • Under win32, proc getdata file is equivalent to pathname; no shell expansion is applied.
  • NT file names and directory names that use embedded spaces will cause problems.
  • When tested, PL.EXE is stable for almost all of the examples, but problems may be encountered. A pltab port is not yet available.


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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