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- READ.ME
-
- Congratulations on receiving a public domain copy of micro PLOX.
- With this set of programs you can print graphs, forms and simple
- line drawings directly from English-like statements onto an Epson
- FX-80 or compatible printer or display them on Hercules, CGA,
- EGA or VGA monitors.
-
- To use PLOX you use an editor to write a set of PLOX statements
- (BIKE89.PIC, for example) and write or generate columns of
- numbers to be plotted (BIKE89.DAT).
- Then:
- PLOX BIKE89.PIC
- PLOTEPS
-
- These two commands will put your plot directly on the printer.
- If PLOTEPS doesn't work use PLOTEPS2 which has lower horizontal
- resolution, but works on many Epson compatible printers.
-
- To see a chart on your monitor screen use one of the following
- commands in place of PLOTEPS:
- PLOTCGA - for a CGA screen
- PLOTHERC - for a Hercules graphics screen
- PLOTEGA - for an EGA screen
- PLOTVGA - for a VGA screen
-
- The full documentation consists of:
-
- PLOX.DOC - Tutorial on PLOX usage.
- PLOX.REF - reference summary of the language
- TINY.DOC - an extremely condensed summary of microPLOX key words
- that can be used with any pop-up note system as a
- quick reference.
- FONTS.DOC - Programmers description of the micro PLOX bit mapped fonts
- TECHNOTE.DOC - Comments on the changes in Release 5.0
- UPDATE.TXT - Text of an article from Vol. 7 No. 4 of The C Users
- Journal, Porting MicroPLOX to XENIX.
- UPDATE2.TXT - Comment on how micro PLOX Release 5.0 supercedes some
- of the changes described in UPDATE.TXT.
-
- LINES.PIC - sample of line and point types
- LINES.DAT
-
- NEINVEST.PIC - example of two line plots in one area
- NEINVEST.DAT with a legend
-
- GROWHIST.PIC - example of many small, single plots
- GROWHIST.DAT in one picture
-
- MILEFORM.PIC - example of a simple form
-
- STAR.PIC - example of a simple line drawing
- STAR.DAT
-
- SCATTER.PIC - example scatter diagram
- SCATTER.DAT
-
- BIKE.PIC - example of a multiple bar chart
- BIKE.DAT
-
- WORDAXIS.PIC - how to build a word axis
- WORDAXIS.DAT
-
- LOGAXIS.PIC - how to build a logarithmic axis
-
- INCOME65.PIC - A double dot chart - the dot chart is recommended
- IND65.DAT by some authors as much better than a pie chart.
- HH65.DAT The data for this was in fact originally shown as
- two pie charts that were almost unreadable.
-
- BIKE89.PIC - combination bar and line with colors
- BIKE89.DAT also shows 2 vertical axes
-
- HUES.PIC - one bar of each color so you can see how they look (EGA,VGA)
-
- FUNDINFO.PIC - generic picture with data file name supplied
- at time chart is drawn (file @).
- Also shows a fairly complex picture.
- FUND01.DAT - data files with PLOX statements for use with
- FUND02.DAT FUNDINFO.PIC above
-