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How to avoid reading this book
If you are temperamentally opposed to reading manuals, you may still
be able to figure out enough of plt to use it from a quick look
at chapter 2. The doc directory of the
plt distribution contains two shell scripts:
- xdemo.sh, for generating and displaying the output of plt in an X
window under GNU/Linux, Unix, MacOS/X, or MS-Windows. Start your X server
(use XDarwin under MacOS/X or Cygwin/XFree86 under MS-Windows) before running
xdemo.sh.
- psdemo.sh, for generating and displaying PostScript output from plt
via ghostscript under GNU/Linux, Unix, MacOS/X, or MS-Windows (using
gsview under MS-Windows or gv otherwise).
Try out one or both of these scripts to see plt in action, and
examine the scripts to see how they work. Of course, this book is
always available when you need it!
George B. Moody (george@mit.edu)
2003-05-01