Splot will run as a PM application on any computer running OS/2. An extended DOS version with slightly less functionality is also available. Disk space requirements are modest. The executable, help, demo and font files take up less than one Mb of disk space. The documentation in LATEXform and the resultant postscript document containing all the figures in the demo directory take up another 2 Mb.
To install Splot make a directory for it copy the distribution file to it and then use an un-zipping utility to un-zip the zipped distribution file. Be sure to use the appropriate flag so that the necessary sub directories are created if your un-zipping utility requires it. This should create three sub directories one containing the fonts, another containing the example programs and a third for the documentation. The executable and help files should be in the current directory. There are two included configuration files splot.cfg and spexpert.cfg. The default is splot.cfg and contains function macros which will fill in prompts for the necessary parameters. For an expert Splot user this is annoying since these prompts must always be erased. Experts should copy spexpert.cfg to splot.cfg to remove the parameter prompts or customize the parameter prompts in splot.cfg.
It is recommended that the actual drawing files be put in a sub directory of the main Splot directory.
To run the program type splot (or spltdemo for the demo version) on a command line followed by an optional file name(s). Alternatively after setting up an association between *.spt files and splot.exe files can be dragged to the splot icon to start Splot.