Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!gwyn@Brl-Vld.ARPA From: gwyn@Brl-Vld.ARPA (VLD/VMB) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: Curve Plotter for Diablo? Message-ID: <8770@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Thu, 28-Feb-85 08:46:18 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.8770 Posted: Thu Feb 28 08:46:18 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 2-Mar-85 04:25:17 EST Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Lines: 12 Diablo Hytype II mechanisms are supported by "tplot -T450", which uses the period (make sure you have a metal-reinforced one) hammered all over the page to draw vectors. Not terrific, but it already comes as part of the standard UNIX plot utilities so you may as well use it. An improvement might be to rasterize the vectors and print rows of dots in raster order; this would usually be slower. As to the software for generating the device-independent plot data in the first place, look up graph(1G) and the graphics(1G). The "gtop" utility can convert the latter (GPS-based) graphics to UNIX plot(4) format with some loss of beauty.