Building from source
If your platform is not SunOS4.1.3 sun4, you need to build xdatplot
from source. If you successfully build xdatplot on some other
platform and are willing to contribute the resulting binaries, please
contact me so I can put them on this server. I would also like to
hear if anyone successfully runs xdatplot on Solaris 2.x in Binary
Compatibility mode.
You must have the motif libraries and include files to build xdatplot. There is currently no option to build it with any free widget set. This may change in the future. Then again, it may not.
gunzip -c xdatplot-0.2.tar.gz | tar xvf - patch -p <patch01 # (for each patch) patch -p <patch02 ... cd xdatplot-0.2 ./configure xmkmf -a make make install(Note: gunzip is the GNU uncompression program. You can get source code for gzip and gunzip from GNU.)
The new xdatplot help system is absolutely and utterly dependent on NCSA mosaic. If you don't have NCSA mosaic (how are you reading this document?), get it from ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu. xdatplot expects to find mosaic under the name "mosaic" in the current $PATH. This can be changed with the helpViewer resource.
By default (or default default), xdatplot fetches help from Texas over the Internet. The reason is to make installation easy for people who don't want a lot of trouble and never use help anyway. However, this makes it slow, especially if you're a long looong way from Texas. And of course, if you don't have an Internet connection, it won't work at all. So if you think you're going to be using xdatplot for any length of time, you should probably fetch the help tree and install it locally. Set the Load to Local Disk option in mosaic, save this file as xdatplot_help.tar.gz, say "gunzip -c xdatplot_help.tar.gz | tar xvf -", which will create a directory called xdatplot_help, then point the XDatplot*helpURL resource at "file://localhost/path/xdatplot_help".
There are a few sample data files you can use to find out if xdatplot is more or less working.
Leon Avery (leon@eatworms.swmed.edu)