From octave-maintainers-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Tue Feb 10 16:04:28 1998
Subject: Re: No subject given
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: "Robert S. Maier" <rsm at math dot arizona dot edu>
Cc: phopfgartner at memc dot inet dot it, octave-maintainers@bevo.che.wisc.edu
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 16:04:39 -0600

On 10-Feb-1998, Robert S. Maier <rsm at math dot arizona dot edu> wrote:

| The fellow who got plotutils-1.3 to work [several months ago] is Bill Mullins
| <mullinwm at picard dot ml dot wpafb dot af dot mil>.  He worked around some bugs, which were
| minor.  He says that on the cygwin32 system, he needed to change the order
| in which the linking of X libraries takes place.  But that sounds like a
| cygwin32 problem, not a plotutils problem.  The other bugs he reported,
| I have fixed in the just-released version 2.0.

It sounds like it requires an X server on the NT/95 system.  If so,
I don't think that's really the best solution.  Can anyone out there
provide an estimate for how difficult it might be to use the native
NT/95 graphics capabilities to avoid requiring an X server?

Thanks,

jwe