QuickPlot - A simple screen (and PostScript printer) plotting
		    tool for the NeXT computer.

	Copyright 1990  Fred Richards.

	The software in this directory is distributed free of
	charge and without a warranty of any kind.  The source
	code may distributed freely as long as it is accompanied
	by this copyright notice.


QuickPlot is a simple plotting tool meant to provide easy 2-D
plotting of ASCII data files.  Files are assumed to contain two
columns of ASCII numbers (integers of floating-point values),
where the columns should be separated by a TAB or SPACE character.

This tool was written using the NeXT Interface Builder tool, and
consequently provides a fairly simple example of how to use the
interface tool.  It also provides a simple introduction to the
PostScript graphics language.

To Build the tool simply type 'make' from the current directory and
the rest should be done automatically.
To install the tool, copy the file 'QuickPlot' to '/LocalApps' or
to '~/Apps' in your home directory and then use the 'Find Applications'
panel item from the 'Utilities' panel in the Workspace menu.
QuickPlot should then have its own icon.


Note that QuickPlot is not intended to produce publication-quality plots,
but rather is meant to be a fast and simple means of graphically displaying
data.  Feel free to add options to the tool to suit your needs.


If you have useful comments or suggestions you can send them to

	fcr@complex.ccsr.uiuc.edu

If you modify QuickPlot in ways that you think might be useful to me or
to others then please let me know also.  Always include the release
number (from the Info panel) in all correspondence.


		Fred Richards
		Dept. of Physics at the University of Illinois

		CCSR @ Beckman Institute
		405 N. Mathews Ave.
		Urbana IL 61801