First, the
contents
of the FTP directory are outlined briefly, and then
information is given about the files containing
PostScript Manual,
the
"info"
manual, the
source
distribution and the
binary
distribution, the
linux
distribution,
and the
examples
which appear in the manual.
1. Contents of Gri FTP Directory
This directory holds Gri, a program to plot science graphs. Several
versions may be available, as indicated by numbers in the filenames.
In the present file, the symbol N.N.N
is used to indicate
the version number.
Contents of this directory:
AUTHOR -- Information about author DISCUSSION -- Email discussion on gri newsgroup FAQ -- Frequently asked questions, text FAQ.html -- Frequently asked questions, HTML History -- History of new features README -- What you are reading now, text README.html -- What you are reading now, text cmdrefcard.ps -- Commands ref card cookbook -- Contents of Gri cookbook fig2gri.gz -- Converts fig files to gri gri-N.N.N.tgz -- complete source, docs gri-N.N.N-1.i386.rpm -- complete RedHat/linux package gri-binary-N.N.N-ibm-rs6000.tar.gz -- Precompiled gri for IBM RS6000 gri-binary-N.N.N-linux.tar.gz -- Precompiled gri for linux gri-binary-N.N.N-sequent.tar.gz -- Precompiled gri for sequent gri-binary-N.N.N-SunOS4.tar.gz -- Precompiled gri for sun OS 4.x gri-binary-N.N.N-SunOS5.tar.gz -- Precompiled gri for sun OS 5.x gri-examples-N.N.N.tar.gz -- Examples from manual gri-manual-info-N.N.N.tar.gz -- Manual in GNU texinfo form gri-manual-postscript-N.N.N.tar.gz -- Manual in PostScript form gri-mode.el -- GNU emacs editing mode for Gri gri-source-N.N.N.tar.gz -- C++ program source for Gri gri-source-beta.tar.gz -- do not use unless author says to gritek-source.tar.gz -- Tektronix Gri viewer (very poor) grix-source.tar.gz -- X11 Gri viewer (very poor) iso0.tar.gz -- Some isopycnals for TS diagrams refcard.ps.gz -- Overview reference cardSome of the files have numbers in their names, to indicate the version of Gri. Files ending in .gz are compressed with GZIP, while those ending in .tar.gz were created by TAR and then compressed. Here is an example of uncompressing and untarring a file archive:
zcat gri-binary-SunOS5-2.1.10.tar.gz | tar xvf -Note: The zcat decompression program can be acquired from any GNU site, e.g. from prep.ai.mit.edu in the pub/gnu directory.
gri-manual-postscript-N.N.N.tar.gz
contains the complete
Gri manual, in PostScript form. Also included are two reference
cards, also in PostScript form.
The manual can be printed on any PostScript printer. On unix systems the command to print it is something like
lpr -ps gri.ps
If your computer can preview PostScript (otherwise, you would not
be using Gri!) then you might want to print just the table of contents
and indices, and use these to navigate the online manual. This saves
paper while letting you keep up-to-date with new versions of the
manual.
3. Info Manual
The file with a name like gri-manual-info-N.N.N.tar.gz
contains the complete Gri manual, in gzip
ed, tar
ed format. The
manual is in the "info" format promoted by the Free Software
Foundation. See your local documentation on installing "info" nodes.
4. Source Distribution
The file with a name like gri-source-N.N.N.tar.gz
contains the complete source for Gri, in gzip
ed,
tar
ed format. (The number gives the version number of
this issue of Gri.) See above for instructions in
unzipping
and untar
ing the
gri-source-N.N.N.tar.gz
file. After this is done,
youll have a local directory called src-VERSION
which contains the Gri source code (plus an ancillary startup file
called gri.cmd
). Read the file INSTALL
to
see how to install Gri on your machine.
5. Binary Distribution
Precompiled versions of Gri are available for several platforms. See
files like gri-binary-SunOS5-N.N.N.tar.gz
, etc. Here is
how to extract gri and install it:
zcat gri-binary-SunOS5-2.1.10.tar.gz | tar xvf -This will create a directory called
gri-binary-SunOS5-2.1.10
which contains the precompiled
(gri
), the startup file (gri.cmd
), a
Makefile to install Gri, and a documentation file called
README
.
README
file to install Gri.
info
' and
`html
' form, is available pre-configured for both RedHat
and Debian flavors of linux. Since most linux distributions handle
either RedHat or Debian packages, this means that these packages
should work on all flavors of linux.
To install in RedHat, type e.g.
rpm -i gri-2.2.0-1.i386.rpmor, if another version of gri is already installed, you'd want to 'update' it, by typing
rpm -U gri-2.2.0-1.i386.rpmRemoving Gri, not that you'd want to, is also trivial:
rpm -e gri
example1.gri
, example2.gri
, etc,
are example Gri command files. To run them, creating PostScript files
named example1.ps
, example2.ps
, etc, simply
type make
in the examples directory.