ploticus: notes on using ploticus on non-unix systems

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## NON-UNIX SYSTEMS

Ploticus was developed on Solaris, a Unix system, and is used without modification on Linux and other modern unix systems.``

If you would like to use ploticus on a Windows/NT system, you can use one of the following:

## NATIVE WIN32 PL.EXE

Ploticus source code (version 2.01 and later) can be compiled on win32 using minGW gcc and make.`` Source code and precompiled executables are available from the download page.`` Notes:

- pl is invoked from the command line (console). Use exactly the same command line arguments as with other versions.``
- The win32 build has pseudo-GIF, SVG, PostScript, and EPS capability by default.`` PNG and other image formats may be added if you have the necessary libraries on your win32 system.`` Interactive viewing of results (X11) is not supported.``
- The default directory for temporary files is `C:\TEMP`.``
- No external unix shell commands are automatically issued.``
- Under win32, proc getdata `file` is equivalent to `pathname`; no shell expansion is applied.``
- While we agree that Microsoft NT's use of spaces in file names is an extremely innovative and useful feature, ploticus will choke on file directory names that use embedded spaces.``
- Scripts and data files should be plain ascii text and may be named anything; but there are some recommended file extensions for scripts .`` Versions compiled using MingW can handle scripts and data files that use MS-DOS CR/LF line termination, but unix builds cannot.``
- When tested, PL.EXE is stable for almost all of the examples, but problems may be encountered.

## CYGWIN

ploticus may be compiled using the cygwin DLL. More information.`` Advantage: interactive display (X11 emulation) is possible.`` Most of the above notes apply.``

Ploticus has also been reported to compile successfully under DJGPP.``
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