[sf-lug] xterm tek scope example

[jim]

It works! 

    Now, how to use it usefully? I'm guessing one 
needs a file that has captured some o'scope data, 
yes? Assuming so, got any pointers this way? 





On Fri, 2013-02-08 at 09:47 -0800, Ken Shaffer wrote:
> 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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