Date:	Mon, 20 Oct 1997 17:43:32 -0700 (PDT)
Message-Id:	<199710210043.RAA15291@adit.ap.net>
Mime-Version:	1.0
To:	"Gurunandan R. Bhat" <grbhat AT unigoa DOT ernet DOT in>
From:	Nate Eldredge <eldredge AT ap DOT net>
Subject:	Re: gnuplot 3.5 ported to DJGPP and Allegro
Cc:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com

At 05:56  10/18/1997 +0000, Gurunandan R. Bhat wrote:
>
>
>On Sat, 18 Oct 1997, Nate Eldredge wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone. I have ported gnuplot 3.5 to DJGPP using Allegro 2.2 for my
>> graphics. gnuplot is a scientific graphing program which can plot functions,
>> data, parametric functions, and 3-d plots. 
>
>Thanks. That will be useful
>
>> Previously, the only ports of
>> gnuplot for DOS were one which was compiled with Turbo C, had only standard
>> VGA graphics, and couldn't do hidden line removal; and one compiled with
>> Zortech C that was really picky about memory managers. The last attempt they
>> did at porting to DJGPP was for DJGPP 1.08 (!), when of course many
>> important things were broken. 
>
>With your permission, may I correct you here. I downloaded the gnuplot 3.5
>(pre 3.6) about a year ago and it came with a makefile called "makedj" 
>IIRC for djgpp v2.01!  I didn't have to do anything more than type makedj.
>While I am sure that integrating the sources to use the Allegro Library is
>an extremely commendable acheivement, I do have a version that compiled
>smoothly with djgpp v 2.01. Since I deleted the sources and retained only
>the binaries I cannot tell you the location now. 
Hmm. I saw that the latest version on ftp.dartmouth.edu, the official site,
was 3.5. Since I had a version also called 3.5, although it was a few months
old, I didn't actually download the new one. Perhaps they changed something
and didn't change the version number? Or were you using a beta version,
perhaps? Hmm. Oh well, it was fun anyway.
The 3.5 I had contained a file `makefile.djg' but it was still for 1.08 and
used the old built-in svga graphics, etc.


Nate Eldredge
eldredge AT ap DOT net

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