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This package contains the binary for gpic, compiled on a NeXT-station (68040) running 2.0. Included is the binary, the manual page, and a sample picture of a 2-3 tree. Gpic is part of the groff distribution, written by James Clark. The source is available from prep.ai.mit.edu. The version I compiled was version 1.01. I used cc++ and the libraries and include files from libg++ version 1.39. Gpic is based on pic, written by Brian Kernighan at Bell Laboratories. If you need to learn more about pic -- basically a subset of gpic -- you should get Bell Laboratories Computing Science Technical Report No. 85. The following is an excerpt from its abstract: PIC is a language for drawing simple figures on a typesetter. The basic objects in PIC are boxes, circles, ellipses, lines, arrows, arcs, spline curves, and text. These may be placed anywhere, at positions specified absolutely or in terms of previous objects. There was also an article in Software Practice & Experience a few years ago, describing pic. Those are the only documents I know of. If you have any questions, send me a mail and I'll try to answer. --Kjell kjell@cs.ucsc.edu
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