xmgrace

Version

5.1.17

Description

Grace (xmgrace) is a WYSIWYG 2D plotting tool for X Window System and OSF Motif.

Grace is a descendant of ACE/gr, also known as Xmgr.

For an overview of its features and documentation see the Grace Home Page.

How to use

For a first impression issue just the command

   xmgrace

Intensive help is available via the online help-facility (that uses the Netscape WWW browser).

For a xmgrace demo, execute the script 'dotest' in the directory

   /usr/local/contrib/lib/grace/examples

A hint: Press the 'exit' button each time to continue the demo. Some of the demos are for color systems only and will not draw meaningful graphs on mono or grayscale systems.

An according programs is

  gracebat  - batch mode

and auxiliary programs are

  fdf2fit   - convert Origin-4 .fdf fit parameter files to Grace format
  convcal   - convert between different date/time formats
  grconvert - convert old binary project files from Xmgr 4.0