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Chapter 3: PLOTTER HELP

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This utility will generate GIF files from data files as supplied in a defined  
control file. The drawing routines use the 'gd' toolkit from Thomas Boutell,   
and the file gd.html as supplied in the documentation has details on purpose,  
licensing and copyright of this library. The code for 'plotter' is copyleft   
analogous to the GPL. Autor is reinhard@doelz.com in May, 1999. The code has  
been verified on LINUX and NT commandline mode.

Section 3.1: Introduction

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Commandline mode DOS                     Commandline mode UNIX   
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plotter [/v|/q] file                     plotter [-v|-q] file

The "v" switch turns on "verbose" mode and prints what has been recognized in extensive fashion. This is for debugging purposes only. The "q" switch is for normal operation and suppresses any messages that document program operation, but will print error messages and exit code -1. 'file' is either a steering file which has FILE commands in it (see below), or is selected from the file stem (supposing ending *.plt), or is seletced from the file ending (supposing name plotter.*). E.g.,

mycrop.str is a steering file that has the commands for data files built in. It MUST have the only word '%PLOTTER' in the first line.
example.plt will be the steering file for the example.* files. Only the current file will be plotted, and a wildcard in the ending will be flagged as an error. E.g., 'example.frg' is a name that triggers the 'example.plt' correctly.
plotter.frg will be the steering file for the *.frg files. Only the current file will be plotted, and a wildcard in the file name will be flagged as an error. E.g., 'example.frg' is a name that triggers the 'plotter.frg/ file as steering file correctly.

STEERING FILE TOKENS The 'steering file' is a definition how to process the data. It has sections for each individual line to be plotted. Besides the sheer data painting, it also has a GLOBAL section that will define headline, asxis, legends, etc.

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