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- This package contains the binary for gpic, compiled on
- a NeXT-station (68040) running 2.0. Included is the
- binary, the manual page, and a sample picture of a 2-3 tree.
-
- Gpic is part of the groff distribution, written by James Clark.
- The source is available from prep.ai.mit.edu. The version I
- compiled was version 1.01. I used cc++ and the libraries and
- include files from libg++ version 1.39.
-
- Gpic is based on pic, written by Brian Kernighan at Bell Laboratories.
- If you need to learn more about pic -- basically a subset of gpic --
- you should get Bell Laboratories Computing Science Technical Report No. 85.
- The following is an excerpt from its abstract:
-
- PIC is a language for drawing simple figures on a typesetter.
- The basic objects in PIC are boxes, circles, ellipses, lines,
- arrows, arcs, spline curves, and text. These may be placed
- anywhere, at positions specified absolutely or in terms of
- previous objects.
-
- There was also an article in Software Practice & Experience a few years
- ago, describing pic. Those are the only documents I know of.
-
- If you have any questions, send me a mail and I'll try to answer.
-
- --Kjell kjell@cs.ucsc.edu
-