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.SH NON-UNIX SYSTEMS
Ploticus was developed on Solaris, a Unix system, and is used
without modification on Linux and other modern unix systems.
.LP
If you would like to use ploticus on a Windows/NT system,
you can use one of the following:

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.SH NATIVE WIN32 PL.EXE
Ploticus 
source code (version 2.01 and later) can be compiled on win32 using mingW.
Source code and precompiled executables are available from the
#set FILE = "../doc/Download.html"
#set TAG = "download page."
#include link
Notes:
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pl is invoked from the command line (console).  
Use exactly the same command line arguments as with other versions.
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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.
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The default directory for temporary files is \fCC:\\TEMP\fR.
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No external unix shell commands are automatically issued.
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Under win32, proc getdata \fCfile\fR is equivalent to \fCpathname\fR;
no shell expansion is applied.
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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.
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Scripts and data files should be plain ascii text and may be named anything;
but there are some
#set FILE = scripts.html
#set TAG = "recommended file extensions for scripts"
#include link
\0.
Versions compiled using MingW can handle scripts and data files that use 
MS-DOS CR/LF line termination, but unix builds cannot.
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When tested, PL.EXE is stable for almost all of the examples, but problems may be encountered. A
#set FILE = "../doc/pltab.1.html"
#set TAG = "pltab"
#include link
port is not yet available.

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.SH CYGWIN 
ploticus may be compiled using the cygwin DLL.  
#set FILE = "http://members.tripod.com/~mhoenicka/ploticus.html"
#set TAG = "More information."
#include link
Advantage: interactive display (X11 emulation) is possible.
Most of the above notes apply.
.LP
Ploticus has also been reported to compile successfully under DJGPP.

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