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.TH PGXWIN_SERVER 1 "Apr 18 2001"
.\" NAME should be all caps, SECTION should be 1-8, maybe w/ subsection
.\" other parms are allowed: see man(7), man(1)
.SH NAME
pgxwin_server \- X-window sever for pgplot plotting subroutine library
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
This manual page documents briefly the
.BR pgxwin_server
command.
This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution
because the original program does not have a manual page.
.PP
.B pgplot
is a large collection of plotting routines callable from C, as well as
FORTRAN (also perl, see below). Many drivers are included to render the
plots on devices. To use PGPLOT, you must set the environment variable,
PGPLOT_DIR to "/usr/lib/pgplot". That is , under csh, type
setenv PGPLOT_DIR /usr/lib/pgplot . Under bash, type
PGPLOT_DIR="/usr/lib/pgplot";export PGPLOT_DIR;
.PP
The default device to be used for the plots can be specified by the PGPLOT_DEV
environment variable.
.PP
.B pgxwin_server
is the sever program for the /xwindow and /xserve devices for
pgplot.
.B pgxwin_server
is automatically started by the /xw and /xs driver when first called
upon. pgxwin_server then continues to serve windows to subsequent
PGPLOT programs and remains running indefinitely. In order that
it be possible to kill the server, an icon window for it is
displayed. Window managers generally provide a way to
interactively kill windows, and if this is applied to the server
window, then the server will close any inactive /xserve windows,
and if no active /xw or /xs windows remain, then the server will shut itself
down cleanly. Note that inactive windows are distinguishable from
active windows by the appearance of a skull-and-crossbones cursor.
.PP
If your default display is correctly set then simply typing:
.PP
pgxwin_server
.PP
with no arguments should start the server, and the server icon
should appear on the display. If an alternate display is
desired then the default display can be overridden with the
-display argument. Other options to override selected X
resources from the command-line are also available. To see them
type:
.PP
pgxwin_server -help
.PP
.SH "SEE ALSO"
Documentation on the library can be found in the directory,
.B /usr/doc/pgplot .
There exists a perl interface to pgplot, pgperl, also available for Debian.
Extensive documentation can be found at
.B http://astro.caltech.edu/~tjp/pgplot/
.SH AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Gopal Narayanan <gopal@debian.org>
for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
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