XPLOT
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: 6 Setpember 1990
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NAME
xplot - plot(5) filter for X
SYNOPSIS
xplot
[-toolkitoption ...] [-option ...]
DESCRIPTION
xplot
reads plot(4) commands from its standard input and draws the
resulting graphics in an X window. The window is updated after
each flush or pipe full of data, and upon end-of-file on the input.
After xplot reaches the end-of-file on the input, it puts itself in
the bacground (forks). Control returns to the calling program, while
xplot continues, remaining on screen.
To exit, click the left mouse button in the xplot window. Note that
xplot ignores SIGHUP signals, so you must use another signal to kill
xplot if necessary.
OPTIONS
Xplot
accepts all of the standard X toolkit command line options, and the initial
geometry specification determines the resolution, with a default
geometry of 500x500 pixels.
The following standard X Toolkit command line arguments may be used with
xplot:
- -bg color
-
This option specifies the color to use for the background of the window.
The default is white.
- -bd color
-
This option specifies the color to use for the border of the window.
The default is black.
- -bw number
-
This option specifies the width in pixels of the border surrounding the window.
- -fg color
-
This option specifies the color to use for displaying text. The default is
black.
- -fn font
-
This option specifies the font to be used for displaying normal text. The
default is 6x10.
- -rv
-
This option indicates that reverse video should be simulated by swapping
the foreground and background colors.
- -geometry geometry
-
This option specifies the prefered size and position of the plot window.
- -display host:display
-
This option specifies the X server to contact.
- -xrm resourcestring
-
This option specifies a resource string to be used.
X DEFAULTS
This program uses the
Command
widget in the X Toolkit. It understands all of the core resource names and
classes as well as:
- reverseVideo (class ReverseVideo)
-
Specifies that the foreground and background colors should be reversed.
- EXAMPLE
-
The resources:
Xplot.font: 6x9
Xplot.geometry: 300x300
will set the font used in the plot window to `6x9' and the size of the
window to 300 by 300 pixels.
SEE ALSO
X(1), plot(4), plot(5), graph(1), axis(1), Athena Command widget
BUGS
Note that the byte order in the plot(4) file format is architecture
dependent in practice. For some simple and/or standard values of
plot's space command, the program will automaticly determine the byte
order. However, there is no guarantee that plot files are portable
across architectures. On some systems, the plottoa and atoplot
commands are available and can be used to work around this problem by
traslating plot files to and from a portable ascii format.
AUTHORS
Arthur Smith (Lassp, Cornell University) <arthur@helios.tn.cornell.edu>
Rich Murphey (ECE, Rice University) <Rich@Rice.edu>
Index
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- SYNOPSIS
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- DESCRIPTION
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- OPTIONS
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- X DEFAULTS
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- SEE ALSO
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- BUGS
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- AUTHORS
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