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READ.ME
Congratulations on receiving a public domain copy of micro PLOX.
With this set of programs you can print graphs, forms and simple
line drawings directly from English-like statements onto an Epson
FX-80 or compatible printer or display them on Hercules, CGA,
EGA or VGA monitors.
To use PLOX you use an editor to write a set of PLOX statements
(BIKE89.PIC, for example) and write or generate columns of
numbers to be plotted (BIKE89.DAT).
Then:
PLOX BIKE89.PIC
PLOTEPS
These two commands will put your plot directly on the printer.
If PLOTEPS doesn't work use PLOTEPS2 which has lower horizontal
resolution, but works on many Epson compatible printers.
To see a chart on your monitor screen use one of the following
commands in place of PLOTEPS:
PLOTCGA - for a CGA screen
PLOTHERC - for a Hercules graphics screen
PLOTEGA - for an EGA screen
PLOTVGA - for a VGA screen
The full documentation consists of:
PLOX.DOC - Tutorial on PLOX usage.
PLOX.REF - reference summary of the language
TINY.DOC - an extremely condensed summary of microPLOX key words
that can be used with any pop-up note system as a
quick reference.
FONTS.DOC - Programmers description of the micro PLOX bit mapped fonts
TECHNOTE.DOC - Comments on the changes in Release 5.0
UPDATE.TXT - Text of an article from Vol. 7 No. 4 of The C Users
Journal, Porting MicroPLOX to XENIX.
UPDATE2.TXT - Comment on how micro PLOX Release 5.0 supercedes some
of the changes described in UPDATE.TXT.
LINES.PIC - sample of line and point types
LINES.DAT
NEINVEST.PIC - example of two line plots in one area
NEINVEST.DAT with a legend
GROWHIST.PIC - example of many small, single plots
GROWHIST.DAT in one picture
MILEFORM.PIC - example of a simple form
STAR.PIC - example of a simple line drawing
STAR.DAT
SCATTER.PIC - example scatter diagram
SCATTER.DAT
BIKE.PIC - example of a multiple bar chart
BIKE.DAT
WORDAXIS.PIC - how to build a word axis
WORDAXIS.DAT
LOGAXIS.PIC - how to build a logarithmic axis
INCOME65.PIC - A double dot chart - the dot chart is recommended
IND65.DAT by some authors as much better than a pie chart.
HH65.DAT The data for this was in fact originally shown as
two pie charts that were almost unreadable.
BIKE89.PIC - combination bar and line with colors
BIKE89.DAT also shows 2 vertical axes
HUES.PIC - one bar of each color so you can see how they look (EGA,VGA)
FUNDINFO.PIC - generic picture with data file name supplied
at time chart is drawn (file @).
Also shows a fairly complex picture.
FUND01.DAT - data files with PLOX statements for use with
FUND02.DAT FUNDINFO.PIC above