This is csna.34.14 in view mode; [Up]
Path: digifix!not-for-mail From: "Paul F. Kunz" <Paul_Kunz@SLAC.Stanford.EDU> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: HippoDraw 2.0 Date: 21 Aug 1993 00:05:47 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Lines: 67 Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Approved: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2546ur$bic@digifix.digifix.com> HippoDraw 2.0 is now available from the following anonymous ftp hosts... sonata.cc.purdue.edu in pub/next/submissions cs.orst.edu in pub/next/submissions ftp.slac.stanford.edu in pub/sources The following extract from the Hippo2.0.README file describes what HippoDraw and what are the various files related to it... HippoDraw is an application to view data that is the form of n-tuples. A n-tuple is a table of data with a fixed number of columns and a (perhaps large) number of rows. HippoDraw can create histograms and plots which are projections of the n-tuple's columns. In HippoDraw you can also do some analysis on your data. For example, you can plot data only if data in some column fits with in range, i.e. a cut. Any number of cuts can be applied to plot, and a given cut can be applied to any number of plots. You can also add new columns to your data interactively. This is done via a dynamically loaded C function. HippoDraw provides you with a template for this function. With HippoDraw, one can also plot functions over histograms and x-y displays. There's also a built in minimization program, Minuit, to get the best fit function to the data. You can dynamically link in your own custom plot functions. HippoDraw is also a drawing program. The plots are just drawing objects. The drawing code was taken from /NextDeveloper/Examples/Draw. Everything in HippoDraw is controlled via the GUI; there are no commands and no scripts. The drawing document contains the analysis, so there's no need for command scripts. HippoDraw contains built-in help, so there is no separate users manual. HippoDraw uses the Hippoplotamus package (or Hippo for short ) for managing the n-tuple data and creating the plots. This package is written in ANSI C, thus is portable. It also writes its binary files to files using SUN's XDR format, so the data is portable as well. That is, the binary file can be read either Motorola or Intel based machines. A plain text format exists as well (see help). Its display package has support for X-Windows, PostScript, and Unix Plot as well as Display PostScript. All but the main program and the main application nib file are contained in an Interface Builder bundle. Thus HippoDraw can be incorporated into other applications that perhaps generate or use the n-tuple data. Contact the authors if you are interested in this. Files HippoDraw2.0.tar.Z is the application with Motorola-only binaries for NeXTSTEP 3.0 or later. HippoDraw2.0.mab.tar.Z is the application with Multiple Architecture Binaries (FAT) for NeXTSTEP 3.1 or later (for Intel and Motorola). hippoplotaumus2.0.tar.Z is the Hippo package in source code including its own documentation. It has been tested on most UNIX platforms, DEC VAX/VMS, and IBM VM/CMS. HippoDraw for X/Motif UNIX platforms will be available Q3 1993.
These are the contents of the former NiCE NeXT User Group NeXTSTEP/OpenStep software archive, currently hosted by Marcel Waldvogel and Netfuture.ch.