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- From: joes@tgs.com (Joe Stewart)
- Subject: Re: DISSPLA replacement requested
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.170809.1014@lpi.liant.com>
- Sender: news@lpi.liant.com
- Reply-To: joes@tgs.com
- Organization: Template Graphics Software
- References: <1993Jan6.182955.1711@EE.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 17:08:09 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan6.182955.1711@EE.Stanford.EDU>, woo@tukey.Stanford.EDU (Alexander Woo) writes:
- |>
- |> As I recall, when Computer Associates bought DISSPLA,
- |> several of the original authors left and wrote another package.
- |> Can someone mail me the name of this package and the
- |> address or phone number of the new company? Does it
- |> run on an Alpha machine?
- |>
- Alex:
-
- "several" isn't the word; "most" I think, is a better description. As far as
- I know, TGS's FIGraph is the closest replacement product for DISSPLA. We've
- made many CA customers very happy; not only because we provide better service
- than CA, but also because we've focused our development efforts on a "faster",
- "smaller", "simpler", and otherwise "better" charting library.
-
- FIGraph is not a one-to-one replacement of the DISSPLA API. Instead, it
- provides equivalent functionallity with much less code. The big reason
- most FIGraph applications are just 3 lines long, is because we provide a
- "graphics tree" which can be modified from a text file! So, the ancient
- programming practive of code, compile, link, and execute has been replaced
- with modify text file then execute. Thus, the time to converge on the chart
- style you want has been decreased dramatically.
-
- FIGraph has both a C and a FORTRAN API and is currently shipping on
- DEC VAX, HP 700, IBM MVS and RS 6000, MIPS, SGI, and SUN. Porting plans
- for DEC ALPHA are in the works.
-
- If you'd like the usual marketing literature, send a note to info@tgs.com.
- If you have specific technical questions, send a note to me, joes@tgs.com.
-
- Regards,
-
- Joe
-
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