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. Ploticus has also been successfully used on Windows/NT systems that are running a unix emulation environment such as Cygwin, but there are sometimes problems that arise with getting this to work.

For version 2.00 I have tried to make the code more portable, however the amount of assistance I can currently give for these environments is very limited. Please let me know if there are other issues I have overlooked here.

Here are some version 2.00 notes for users on Windows/NT systems:

  • No external unix shell commands are automatically issued as long as you use proc getdata pathname instead of filename.

  • The default temp file directory is /tmp, and the default slash for building file names is /. This may be changed in pl.h before compilation, or by setting tmpdir and pathslash in a config file .

  • The -DNOX11 compile flag may be used to eliminate X11 references from the product.


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