Miscellaneous News about Plotters =----=----=----=----=----=----=----=----=----=----=----=----=----=----=----= Newsgroups: comp.os.vms Path: cs.utk.edu!stc06.CTD.ORNL.GOV!fnnews.fnal.gov!nntp-server.caltech.edu !seqvax.caltech.edu!mathog From: mathog@seqvax.caltech.edu (David Mathog) Subject: Re: graphs on VMS Date: 6 Feb 1995 09:18 PST Organization: Division of Biolgy, CALTECH Message-ID: <6FEB199509185277@seqvax.caltech.edu> References: <3ghgas$on4@cs.umb.edu> <3goevg$6j0@jac.zko.dec.com> In article <3goevg$6j0@jac.zko.dec.com>, vandenheuvel@eps.enet.dec.com (Hein RMS van den Heuvel) writes... >> >>does anybody know how I can graph {from data files} on VMS/VAX? >>any references, suggestions etc. would be very much appreciated > >On my little VAXStation with DECwindows/Motif, I tend to >select DECchart from the Applications menu in the Session manager. >It has been good enough for my needs, but unfortunatly I can not >tell how available this software it in general. Not very general, DECchart is a layered product. On an AXP, DECchart is installed along with DECwrite. Since DEC's plans for software of this type are clear (ditch it all as soon as possible) it wouldn't be a great idea to become too dependent on it. (Apparently VMS users don't need word processors, spreadsheets, or plotting packages - with strategic planning like that, we can all start budgeting to replace our VMS machines now :-(.) Anyway, there is a public domain plotting package called PGPLOT that should be able to handle your plotting needs, although perhaps with a tiny bit of coding needed. It consists of a whole bunch of callable subroutines, but there may be some simple plotting programs in there. Look in the directory: ftp://astro.caltech.edu/pub/pgplot Regards, David Mathog mathog@seqvax.bio.caltech.edu Manager, sequence analysis facility, biology division, Caltech =----=----=----=----=----=----=----=----=----=----=----=----=----=----=----= Newsgroups: comp.os.vms Path: cs.utk.edu!stc06.CTD.ORNL.GOV!fnnews.fnal.gov!mp.cs.niu.edu !vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!mv!usenet From: Daniel Esbensen Subject: Re: graphs on VMS Message-ID: Nntp-Posting-Host: ttieast.mv.com Sender: usenet@mv.mv.com (Mark E. Mallett) Organization: MV Communications, Inc. Date: Tue, 7 Feb 1995 21:14:40 GMT References: <3ghgas$on4@cs.umb.edu> <3goevg$6j0@jac.zko.dec.com> <6FEB199509185277@seqvax.caltech.edu> > Not very general, DECchart is a layered product. On an AXP, DECchart is > installed along with DECwrite. Since DEC's plans for software of this type > are clear (ditch it all as soon as possible) it wouldn't be a great idea to > become too dependent on it. (Apparently VMS users don't need word > processors, spreadsheets, or plotting packages - with strategic planning > like that, we can all start budgeting to replace our VMS machines now :-(.) Hi, Our company (Touch Technologies, Inc.) owns DECchart and we are spending losts of $$$ on its enhancement -- including looking into making it available as a separate product. DECchart is *very* nice -- easy to work with. Digital is *not* "ditch it all as soon as possible" minded. Their goal is to move the engineering of smaller products (less than $10,000,000/year) to smaller companies -- with Digital continuing to be a distributor. It is a strong effort by Digital to shake their "not invented here" mindset and to make a profit! DECchart is also part of DECdecision, a very powerful, integrated Spreadsheet, database query, and charting package. We also own DECdecision (but you can purchase it from either us or from Digital). The new DECdirect catalog has a 1/2 page spread on DECdecision!! Dan E. Highly vested interest in DECchart and DECdecision =----=----=----=----=----=----=----=----=----=----=----=----=----=----=----= Calcomp (a Lockheed-Martin Company) is a traditional maker of high-end engineering plotters, graphics tablets, digitizers, and inkjet printers. There is a web page at http://www.calcomp.com/index.htm with technical help at http://www.calcomp.com/techsupport/index.htm CalComp 2411 West La Palma Avenue Anaheim, CA 92801-2689 voice: +1 714/821-2000 fax: +1 714/821-2832 For U.S./Canadian technical support/service, call 1-800-451-7568 On July 24, 1996, CalComp Inc. announced that its strategic combination with Summagraphics Corporation was completed. The combined company, CalComp Technology, Inc., is traded on the NASDAQ National Market System under the new ticker symbol "CLCP." Device drivers are available by anonymous FTP here: ftp://ftp.calcomp.com/pub/drivers/ See ftp://ftp.calcomp.com/pub/drivers/readme.txt Catalogs of supplies (ink, paper, etc.) can be found in: ftp://ftp.calcomp.com/pub/drivers/supplies/ There is an HPGL-to-PCI converter program: ftp://ftp.calcomp.com/pub/drivers/HPGL2PCI.ZIP Summagraphics had previously absorbed plotter vendor Houston Instruments; technical support for HI-PAD products comes from TMS: +1 714/837-2324 =----=----=----=----=----=----=----=----=----=----=----=----=----=----=----=