[sf-lug] xterm tek scope example

[Ken Shaffer]

Jim,
/usr/share/doc/plotutils/tek2plot should have some more demos, like the
usmap.tek (compressed).  Easy to run from
the tek terminal, just zcat the file.
I haven't done much with the tek terminal myself, just one more thing that
makes xterm so big.  I do use the font changer menu for xterms pretty
regularly, but that's about it.  When teaching using a projected terminal,
I liked to make the font big enough to be easily seen by the pupils in the
back row.  Or just a little chfnt script:
MYFNT=${1-8x16}
echo -n -e "\033]50;$MYFNT\007"

Ken

On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 10:08 AM, jim <jim at well.com> wrote:

>
> 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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