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

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:
  • pl is invoked from the command line (console). Use exactly the same command line arguments as with other versions.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • File names that contain embedded whitespace will generally not work.
  • Scripts and data files should be text files. There are no special rules for win32 regarding file name extensions, other than the recommended file extensions for scripts.
  • Unix builds of version 2.11 or later, and all win32 (mingw) builds, handle script and data files in unix text format or DOS CR/LF text format. Earlier unix versions handle unix text format but do not handle the hokey DOS text properly.


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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