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GLE installed on Athena
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Thu Dec 26 13:05:52 2002
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Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 13:05:26 -0500
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
I've installed GLE on Athena for Sun and Linux machines. GLE (Graphics
Layout Engine) is a compiler for a language that generates graphs and
plots. The GLE translator gle_ps converts files in the GLE source
language (.gle files) to printable form (typically encapsulated
PostScript). It does not currently come with a GUI. To use it on
gle source file myfile.ps:
add gle; gle_ps file.gle /eps
This will produce file.eps, which can be printed by the standard lpr command.
To learn its syntax see files /mit/gle_v3.5/gle-3.3h-man.pdf and
/mit/gle_v3.5/gle3-5-man.pdf in the gle_v3.5 locker- there are examples
in the /mit/gle_v3.5/share/demo/gle directory, with a makefile for
building the output files.
At the moment color mapping and textures don't work properly on Suns-
I'm not sure when a fix will be available.
Alex
