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- WPlot Description and Installation Instructions
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- WPlot is a Windows program that plots two and three-dimensional data.
- Up to 250 sets of data can be plotted on the same 2-Dimensional plot
- using either one or two vertical axes. There can be up to 16000 data
- points per data set. Each data set can be plotted as a line plot, a
- smooth curve plot, a scatter plot, a step plot or a histogram. Multiple
- data sets can also be plotted as a 3-Dimensional plot. The plot can
- have linear or log axes with auto or manual scaling. Two-Dimensional
- plots can also have cumulative normal probability axes, error bars and
- descending as well as ascending axes. Data can be fit by a smooth curve
- or a least squares polynomial or exponential. The Fast Fourier Transform
- can be used to fit the data with a discrete Fourier series and the
- magnitudes of the FFT coefficients can be plotted. Mathematical
- transformations of the data can be performed by entering equations that
- operate on one or more data sets. Functions can be evaluated and plotted.
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- The WPlot software comes with an auxiliary program, WFIT, which can fit
- a nonlinear function to data and use WPlot to plot the fit. The WFIT
- program was originally written for DOS. It was compiled as a Windows
- program so that it could use the WPlot program to do the plotting but
- it does not have a true Windows menu interface as does the WPlot program.
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- WPlot can be used to plot data collected, calculated, or processed by a
- user written C or Visual Basic program. The WPlot software now comes
- with a Dynamic Link Library (DLL) containing functions that the user's
- program can call to start WPlot and send plot commands and data to WPlot.
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- The WPlot software consists of the following files:
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- WPLOT.DOC - This file.
- WPLOT.EXE - The WPlot plotting program.
- WPLOT.HLP - WPlot Help file.
- WFIT.EXE - Program that finds a nonlinear curve fit.
- *.PLT - Example plot files that can be loaded by WPlot.
- *.FIT - Example curve fits that can be loaded by WFIT.
- WPLOTCMD.DLL - DLL with functions for controlling WPlot.
- WPLOTCMD.H - C header file describing interface to the DLL functions.
- WPLOTCMD.LIB - Import library that can be linked with user's C program.
- DLLDEMO.* - Example C program that controls WPlot.
- VBDEMO.* - Example Visual Basic program that controls WPlot.
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- To install the WPlot software on a hard disk, make a directory that
- will contain the software, C:\WPLOT for example. Then copy to this
- directory all of the WPlot files listed above including the example
- PLT and FIT files.
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- To install WPlot as a Windows icon:
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- 1. Select a Windows group.
- 2. Select the Program Manager's "File" menu item.
- 3. Select the "New" sub-menu item.
- 4. Select the "Program Item" option.
- 5. Enter the following information:
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- Description: WPlot
- Command Line: C:\WPLOT\WPLOT.EXE
- Working Directory: C:\WPLOT
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- Follow a similar procedure to install the WFIT program.
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- To see a demo of the types of plots that WPlot can make, start WPlot
- and select the menu item "File" then "Load Plot Command File" and
- load the file DEMO.PLT. The file DEMO.PLT and all of the other
- example PLT files must be in the working directory specified above.
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- You can also see the demo before installing WPlot as a Windows icon.
- Use the DOS command CD to change the default directory to the directory
- containing the WPlot program and example PLT files, for example:
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- CD \WPLOT
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- Then start Windows and the WPlot program:
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- win wplot demo
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- WPLOT SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT
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- The WPlot software is protected by copyright law; it is not public
- domain. You are granted a limited license to use the WPlot software for
- the purpose of evaluation of the software for a limited period not to
- exceed 30 days. You are also granted a license to make and distribute
- complete and unmodified copies for the purpose of evaluation of the
- software by others. Permission is granted to distributors to charge a
- reasonable media and handling fee for diskettes or other media containing
- the WPlot software or for access to the software on bulletin boards or
- FTP sites. Use of the WPlot software beyond a 30 day evaluation period
- without payment of the $25.00 license fee is a copyright violation.
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- Payment of the $25.00 license fee entitles a single user to use the WPlot
- software. "Single user" means that the software is to be used by only a
- single individual but the software may be installed for that one
- individual's use on multiple PCs (in the individual's office and home for
- example) OR the software may be installed on a single PC and be used by
- multiple individuals as long no two individuals can use the WPlot
- software at the same time. Installation on multiple PCs or a network
- server with simultaneous access by multiple individuals requires a
- multi-user license.
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- The software is provided "AS IS" without warranty of any kind, either
- expressed or implied.
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- WPLOT VERSION NUMBER: 2.1.1
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- Send payment to: William G. Hood
- 711 Mitchell
- Conway, Arkansas 72032 (USA)
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- [ ] Payment by check of _______ for a license for ____ users
- of the WPLOT software @ $25.00 / user
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- of the WPLOT software @ $15.00 / user.
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- [ ] Payment by check of $200.00 for a license for an unlimited number
- of users of the WPLOT software (within a single organization).
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- [ ] Add $10 to the license payment to receive a floppy diskette containing
- the latest version of the WPLOT software (version 2.1.1 or later).
- Diskette drive: [ ] 5.25" (1.2M) [ ] 3.5" (720K or 1.44M)
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