[sf-lug] xterm tek scope example

[Ken Shaffer]

Jim,
Both graph and plot are in the plotutils package on my Ubuntu system.
The 5 seconds is from the sleep 5, increase it to keep things around longer.
Have fun,
Ken

On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 6:51 PM, jim <jim at well.com> wrote:

>
>
>     Thanks. It worked, kind of.... I got an xterm
> window with two error messages reporting the
> inability to find the graph or plot programs; after
> five seconds, poof!
>     Are there more common commands I could use or
> is there a particular package that has both plot
> and graph?
>
>
>
> On Thu, 2013-02-07 at 14:56 -0800, Ken Shaffer wrote:
> > At the last SF Linux Group Meeting a question came up about the
> > differences between the
> > gnome terminal and an xterm: I mentioned the ctrl-mousebutton menues,
> > which include an unused feature of the xterm:
> >  a tec scope (vector output) emulator window.
> > Below is an example which draws a simple graph in a window (you may
> > submit from any terminal):
> > xterm -e /bin/bash -l -c 'echo "1 50 3 80" |graph|plot -Ttek; sleep 5'
> > Ken
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