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- This is the 9th beta release (4.99i) of what will eventually become
- the PLplot 5.0 distribution. At this point I'm mainly trying to root out the
- remaining bugs and system dependencies, but there will undoubtably be a
- few improvements yet before the final version sees the light of day.
-
- Please refer to the following files for more information:
-
- README General introduction, where to get more information, etc.
- NEWS This file
- CHANGES Log of changes to plplot in reverse chronological order.
- ToDo Describes what's on the agenda (no promises, however :-).
- FAQ Frequently answered questions.
- INSTALL Installation notes
-
- Also see the system-specific documentation under sys/<system-name>.
- The manual is being updated! More below.
-
- You can get the PLplot distribution by anonymous ftp from:
-
- /anonymous@dino.ph.utexas.edu:/plplot
-
- in either .zip or .tar.gz form. The most up-to-date (not very, at this
- point) manual (in .ps and .dvi form) and info document files are available
- there as well.
-
-
- For more detail of these changes, consult CHANGES.
-
- **************************************************************************
- Version 4.99i: Summary of major changes
- **************************************************************************
-
- Primarily a bug-fix release. Major changes:
-
- - Changed distribution status to GPL/LGPL. See "Copyright". Other
- administrative file name changes.
-
- - Various small bugs in configure & build fixed.
-
- - Bug in code to keep track of window world coordinates fixed (symptoms:
- core dump would occur after the 65th page if pleop() was used to end the
- page rather than pladv()). Thanks to Ian Searle for providing a
- demonstration of the bug.
-
- - Bugs fixed in core routines + TK driver handling of colormap when
- saturation = 0; i.e. grayscale plots. Thanks to Radey Shouman for his
- help.
-
- - Fixed a bug that was preventing the exponential label from showing up
- under certain circumstances (3-D plots).
-
- - Conex device (tek emulator under DOS) driver support added in tek.c;
- contributed by Mark Olesen.
-
- - Bug fixed in X driver that was causing a "Bad Match" error upon startup
- on some systems.
-
- - Postscript driver:
- Fixed bug in current point update after state change.
- Fix to allow cmap1 color selections to appear in grayscale;
- contributed by Radey Shouman.
-
- - Tk driver: Fix to allow a TK main window to be associated with each
- PLStream (so x14c now can use either the TK or DP driver), also fix to
- properly update plserver's X-driver when cmap state is
- changed. Contributed by Radey Shouman.
-
- - pltek: Now checks for the terminal type and provides some rudimentary
- decisions based on the TERM setting. The xterm is unaffected, but with
- a terminal type of "tekterm", the 'Page >' prompt is printed on the
- graphics screen so that the plot can be seen without having pltek flash
- back to the text screen immediately. Contributed by Mark Olesen.
-
- - Updated DOS/EMX driver provided by Mark Olesen; see sys/dos/emx for
- more detail.
-
- - Amiga driver: Updated to work with new version. Now has configure
- script for SKsh users -- is now trivial to configure and build. A
- fall-back Makefile is also provided. Several bugs fixed, notably one in
- changing the screen mode. A compiled version of the PLplot library
- (SAS/C 6.2, IEEE single precision floats, optimized) and plrender are
- now available in the ~ftp/plplot/amiga directory on dino.ph.utexas.edu.
-
- - The "plpr" script (used when choosing "Print" from Tk driver) now
- defaults to using color postscript as output.
-