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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.
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- 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)
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- Complex pictures can be drawn with user defined subroutines and
- simple looping structures.
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- The SURFACE utility allows hidden line surface plotting.
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- The CONTOUR utility allows contour plots.
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- The MANIP utility allows columns of data to be manipulated.
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- The FITLS utility allows arbitrary equations to be fitted to
- data.
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- Current device drivers support XWindows, REGIS, TEK4010, all PC
- graphics cards, VT100's, HP-Plotters, PostScript Printers, EPSON
- Printers and LaserJet/Paintjet Printers.
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- GLE runs on VAX-VMS, UNIX and PC's, giving a near identical user interface
- on all platforms.
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- 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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- In order to install GLE on a UNIX system ftp the following files:
-
- Be sure to use binary transfer for tar_z files.
-
- $ ftp wuarchive.wustl.edu 128.252.135.4
- FTP> user anonymous
- Password: (your Email address)
- FTP> cd /graphics/graphics (probable directory, check index)
- FTP> ascii
- FTP> get gle33b.txt (this file)
- FTP> binary
- FTP> get gle33b.tar.Z
- FTP> get gle33b.ps.Z (Optional PostScript copy of manual)
- FTP> quit
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- GLE will compile under GCC or XLC (on AIX R6000's)
-
- It is suggested that you build GLE in a temporary directory of it's own
- and then use the install.com script to copy the 'required' parts
- of gle into the system areas, you can then delete the gle source directory
- tree.
-
- Then uncompress and un-Tar the installation kit.
- uncompress gle33b.tar.Z
- tar -xvf gle33b.tar
- cd gle
-
- GLE needs to know where it is being built as it runs itself during
- the installation. Define GLE_TOP:
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- pwd (Print working directory)
- /home/mydir/gle
-
- (sh) export GLE_TOP="/home/mydir/gle/" (use your own directory)
- (csh) setenv GLE_TOP "/home/mydir/gle/" (don't miss off the trailing slash)
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- To test SURFACE you will need to define SURF_TOP too.
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- export SURF_TOP="/home/mydir/gle/util/surf/"
-
- These defines are not needed once gle is installed in the system directories.
-
- If you are going to want to test it before copying it to /usr/local/bin
- then you might want to add GLE_TOP into your PATH.
-
- export PATH=$PATH:/home/mydir/gle
-
- It might be worth touching the files as TAR doesn't always
- get the dates right (which confuses make):
- touch gle/*
- touch gle/*/*
- touch gle/*/*/*
- (if you are building gle in a directory which already had a copy of
- gle then you might have to force make to recompile by deleting the
- object files.
- rm *.o
- )
-
- Pick one of the files {config.*} which most matches
- your machine and copy it to {config.i}, you may want
- to edit this file if you have xwindows or need to make
- some other simple change.
-
- ls config.*
- cp config.ultrix config.i
-
- Now run make:
- make
- Once that has completed type in:
- make doutils
-
- To test gle out:
- Create yourself a gle directory to play in:
- mkdir gletest
- cd gletest
- cp ../demo/* ( or /usr/local/gle/demo/* to copy the examples)
-
- Then try it out (note: the command is gle, not cgle):
- ../gle test.gle (For dumb terminals)
- ../gle test.gle -dX (For xwindows)
- ../gle test.gle -dtek (Tektronix 4010 terminals)
- ../gle test.gle -dregis (Regis, vt240, vt340)
- ../gle test.gle -dhpgl (HP plotters)
- ../gle test.gle -dps (To produce PostScript output)
-
- (NOTE: if you already have gle installed in a system path then
- the old version of gle will be picked up rather than the new version
- (even using gle_path). To avoid this problem you should temporarily
- remove gle from your path variable, you can also run specific
- gle drivers using:
- ../gle_ps (PostScript)
- ../gle_vt (terminal)
-
-
- (You must replace ../ with the path to where the gle executables
- were created)
-
- (To load a different example press ^F 3, then ^F 0 to draw it)
-
- To install gle executables in /usr/bin and the gle help,font and example
- files into /usr/local/gle enter the command:
- install.com
-
- If you wish to install gle in a different directory permenently
- then you can modify the file {glepath.h} and then recompile or
- you can use the environment variable GLE_TOP
-
- After checking that gle is working correctly you can delete
- the source files to save a lot of space:
- cd ..
- rm gle -r
-
- Once gle has been installed the commands that are added are:
-
- gle Graphics Language Editor, graphs and slides.
- surface Plots hidden line wire mesh 3d plots
- fitls Fit's best fit least squares line to any equation
- fitz Creating even grid data from random xyz data
- letz Creating grid of values from expression
- manip Data manipulation
-
- There is a postscript copy of the manual in
- gle33b.ps.Z
-
- If you have to make changes to install GLE on your machine please
- send them to me.
-
- Thanks, Chris. (srghcxp@grv.dsir.govt.nz)
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