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- GLE 3.3 h for LINUX ported by Axel Rohde
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- Advertisement section by the author Chris Pugmire
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- GLE is a hi quality graphics package for scientists. GLE
- combines a user friendly interface with a full range of
- facilities for producing publication quality graphs, diagrams,
- posters and slides. GLE runs on PC's, VAXes and Unix.
-
- It provides LATEX quality fonts together with a flexible
- graphics module which allows the user to specify any feature
- of a graph (down to the line width of the subticks for example)
-
- Complex pictures can be drawn with user defined subroutines and
- simple looping structures.
-
- The SURFACE utility allows hidden line surface plotting.
-
- The CONTOUR utility allows contour plots.
-
- The MANIP utility allows columns of data to be manipulated.
-
- The FITLS utility allows arbitrary equations to be fitted to
- data.
-
- Current device drivers support XWindows, REGIS, TEK4010, all PC
- graphics cards, VT100's, HP-Plotters, PostScript Printers, EPSON
- Printers and LaserJet/Paintjet Printers.
-
- GLE runs on VAX-VMS, UNIX and PC's, giving a near identical user interface
- on all platforms.
-
- For information on ftp sites for VMS or UNIX versions of GLE, or any
- other questions send a mail message to:
- srghcxp@grv.dsir.govt.nz
-
-
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- Installation section by Axel Rohde
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-
- You need two environment-variables to run gle:
-
- Add this to your profile if you're using a Bourne- or Korn style shell (BASH
- or ZSH):
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- export GLE_TOP="/usr/local/gle"
- export GRXFONT="/usr/local/gle/grxfont"
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- If you're using a C-Shell (CSH, TCSH) add the following lines instead:
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- setenv GLE_TOP "/usr/local/gle"
- setenv GRXFONT "/usr/local/gle/grxfont"
-
- This version is compiled with NCURSES 1.8.5. It requires an installed TERMINFO
- database. Since the NCURSES are part of the most Linux distributions, I
- omitted it.
-
- In order to make all function-Keys effective ( F1-F10, Home, End, Del)
- you must change your keymap. Take a look into the subdirectory
- Linux-Keymaps
-
-
- !!!!!!!!! WARNING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- gle_vga and surf_vga must be set-user-id root to work.
- They are a great security hole, if any user can execute them!!!!!
- You have to set the attributes on your own (risk).
- To allow all users to use the execute:
- chmod a+s gle_vga surf_vga
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- I omitted the REGIS and VT drivers, since they don't work under Linux.
-
-
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- New features
- ------------
-
- surface has a new keyword: nobigfile
- If 'nobigfile' is specified somewhere in a .sur file, surface does
- not waste time to write a .big file for GLE. This increases the
- performance while you're 'designing' the plot.
-
- GLE tries to read files to **include** from two library directories, too.
- The system wide library directory is GLE_TOP/lib. Each user (I don't plan
- to write a 'multi user DOS') can have an additional library directory:
-
- export GLE_USRLIB=/home/joe/glelib
-
- Try to run ftest.gle.
-
-
-
-
- That's all...
- for those who are not curious enough to read the next lines...
-
- GLE_VGA and SURF_VGA are programs, that you will not find in the
- source-distribution. They're using and very old version of svgalib and
- an alpha-release of GRX for Linux and BCC2GRX 1.3 by Hartmut Schirmer.
- BCC2GRX maps calls of Borland's Graphic Interface (BGI from TURBO Pascal and C)
- to GRX calls. GRX is a Graphics-Library by Csaba Biegl that is used with
- D. J. Delorie's GNU C port DJGPP for MS-DOS. Hartmut ported GRX to Linux.
- It sits on top of SVGALIB. Due to restrictions, only VGA resolution at 60Hz
- refresh rate is supported. GLE_VGA and SURF_VGA were in fact a joke. I wanted
- to see, how good the combination of Turbo-C-BGI-Code with BCC2GRX-GRX-VGALIB
- works. It was in fact easy, to make gle_vga compile and work with Linux. It
- was much easier, than making a 32-bit GLE work under DOS - compiled with D.J.
- delories port of GCC (and of course GRX + BCC2GRX)!
- I recently did that, too. I you are compelled to use DOS under some
- circumstances, you may use now a 32-bit version of GLE under DOS!
- No more memory restrictions, GCC-compiled and therefore faster than any
- Borland stuff.
-
-
-
- Announce
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-
- You can get GLE 3.3 gb for MSDOS 'GLE 32' from tui.marc.cri.nz.
-
- directory: /pub/gle/gle32
-
-
- There is a multitude of drivers included in this package, that support
- high resolution and high refresh modes.
-
-
- I made another port of GLE to OS/2. It's full 32bit, too.
-
- Announce
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-
- You can get GLE 3.3 gb for OS/2 from tui.marc.cri.nz.
-
- directory: /pub/gle/os2
-
-
- Have fun,
- Axel Rohde
- (rohde@physik.uni-kiel.d400.de)
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