Date   : Fri, 31 Aug 1984 23:24:00 MDT (Fri)
From   : "Frank J. Wancho" <WANCHO@Simtel20.ARPA>
Subject: PLOT33 Package available

PLOT33 has been contributed to the public domain collection on
SIMTEL20 by Thomas E. Speer at AFIT.  This system will do high
resolution graphics on a variety of dot matrix printers, and is being
used at the Air Force Institute of Technology for purposes ranging
from data plotting to VLSI design check points.

The package consists of the user's guide documentation for the entire
system, the assembly language source for the dot matrix driver, Turbo
Pascal, FORTRAN-80, and MBASIC plot packages, and sample programs.  A
C library is being debugged.

Printers supported include the Epson MX-80 etc., CItoh Prowriter,
Okidata 92, NEC, Gemini-10, Apple Dot Matrix, and IDS printers.

PLOT33 lets you treat your printer as if it were a plotter capable of
true vector graphics.  Your application program "plots" by writing
simple plot commands to a disk file.  This file is the key to the
whole system because it makes the application program independent of
the plotting device and vice versa.  It also makes it possible to plot
pictures that were created on different computers, or to plot the same
picture on different types of hardware, such as CRTs and printers.

Future drivers are being planned for creating and interpreting the
vector command file on mainframe computers using CALCOMP or Tektronix
plotters and terminals.


Here's the standard CRC list of the files available on SIMTEL20:

Filename                       Type     Bytes   Sectors     CRC

Directory MICRO:<CPM.PLOT33>
FILLS.BAS.1                    ASCII      723    6 =   6H  8558H
GRAF.F.1                       ASCII    43047  337 = 151H  379EH
GRAF.FQ.1                      COM      23552  184 =  B8H  F997H
GRAF1.PAS.1                    ASCII    16863  132 =  84H  779BH
GRAF2.PAS.1                    ASCII    18855  148 =  94H  B0FFH
GRAPH.BAS.1                    ASCII     9028   71 =  47H  9066H
HANDPLOT.BAS.1                 ASCII    22477  176 =  B0H  93B2H
PLOT33.AQM.1                   COM      44416  347 = 15BH  FC55H
PLOT33.ASM.1                   ASCII    74560  583 = 247H  F92DH
PLOT33.DOC.1                   ASCII    74617  583 = 247H  9E0FH
PLOT33.DQC.1                   COM      38400  300 = 12CH  3C2DH
TEST.BAS.1                     ASCII     1451   12 =   CH  9AA4H
TEST.PAS.1                     ASCII     2338   19 =  13H  41CDH
UPLOAD.BAS.1                   ASCII    10135   80 =  50H  811DH

--Frank