Commerical graphing packages?

[John J. Lee]

18k11tm001 at sneakemail.com writes:

> >If you're generating lots of graphs programatically, eg. on a web
> >server, grace is not what you want.  Yes, it has a command language,
> >but IIRC it depends on X11, and windows even pop up as it runs in
> >batch mode.  Bleh.
> 
> I don't understand what you're talking about. I've been using GRACE in
> batch mode for years and I've never had a window pop up. The only time
> a window "pops up" is when you start GRACE interactively.

Hmm, I guess I was actually using grace_np.py rather than batch
mode... it was a few years ago I last used it.


> The GRACE command language is not the greatest, but it gets the job
> done. It may have improved lately too (I run a fairly old version).
> 
> Another nice feature of GRACE is a fairly active user community and a
> mailing list for help. They helped get me unstuck several times a while
> back.

...and some nasty features are the rather nasty GUI (at least, I found
it awkward) and the fact that it's the only X11 application I've used
that ever managed to crash my whole X desktop.


John