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Downloading DATAPLOT Auxillary Files
Introduction
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The Dataplot auxillary files consist of the following:
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The Tcl/Tk script files and the GUI menu files are used only by the GUI version of Dataplot. All the other files are common to both the command line version and the GUI version of Dataplot.
Download Auxillary Files
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You can download the
Dataplot auxillary files (updated 08/03/2018).
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The following previous versions of the auxillary files are also available: After downloading this file, we recommend copying it to the /usr/local/lib/dataplot directory. If you do not have super user permission, we recommend copying it to ~/lib/dataplot. Although these are the recommended locations, you can in fact move this file to whatever directory is most convenient to you. You may need to set a few environment variables so that Dataplot knows where these files are located.Once you have moved the file to the desired location, enter
tar -xvf dplib.tar
Graphical User Interface: Based on Tcl/Tk Scripting Language
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The Dataplot GUI is implemented using the freely available Tcl/Tk
scripting language. Tcl/Tk is typically installed on most Linux
platforms. If it is not and you would like to use the GUI, then
you will need to install it. Since Tcl/Tk can typically be
installed using package managers for various systems, we do not
discuss Tcl/Tk installation here. If you need assistance with
this, contact
alan.heckert@nist.gov.
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Tcl/Tk is a scripting language (e.g., Perl, Python, C-shell scripts) as oppossed to a low level programming language (e.g., C or Java). The Dataplot GUI is implemented as a collection of Tcl/Tk scripts. Note that the contents of the menus in the Dataplot GUI are read from ASCII text files (these are referred to as the menu files). In a sense, this approach decouples the GUI from the underlying Dataplot executable. That is, the GUI essentially builds commands that are passed to the underlying Dataplot executable and then returns the alphanumeric and graphical output from Dataplot to the appropriate GUI windows. Using this Tcl/Tk approach has the following advantages:
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