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Downloading DATAPLOT Auxillary Files
Introduction
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The Dataplot auxillary files consist of the following:
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The Tcl/Tk script files and the GUI menu files are used only by the GUI version of Dataplot. All the other files are common to both the command line version and the GUI version of Dataplot.
Download Auxillary Files
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You can download the
Dataplot auxillary files (updated 12/20/2013).
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The following previous versions of the auxillary files are also available:
Graphical User Interface: Based on Tcl/Tk and Expect
Scripting Languages
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The Dataplot GUI is implemented using the freely downloadable
Tcl/Tk and Expect utilities. These utilities are quite
popular, so it is possible that they may already be
installed on your local system (e.g., they are part of the
standard Red Hat Fedora installation).
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Tcl/Tk is a scripting language (e.g., Perl, Python, C-shell scripts) as oppossed to a programming language (e.g., C or Java). The Dataplot GUI is implemented as a collection of Tcl/Tk scripts. Note that the contents of the menus in the Dataplot GUI are actually read from ASCII text files (these are referred to as the menu files). In a sense, this approach decouples the GUI from the underlying Dataplot. That is, the GUI essentially builds commands that are passed to the underlying Dataplot and then returns the alphanumeric and graphical output from Dataplot to the appropriate GUI windows. Expect is an extension of the Tcl/Tk scripting language. The role of Expect is to handle the communications from the GUI to the underlying Dataplot. If Expect is not available, then Tcl/Tk uses a different, Tcl/Tk based method for handling this communication. That is, Expect is used if available, but it is not required. Using this Tcl/Tk approach has the following advantages:
Downloading and Installing Tcl/Tk and Expect
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In order to use the Dataplot GUI, Tcl/Tk and, optionally,
Expect need to be installed on your system. Under Linux/Unix
platforms, Tcl/Tk will more than likely already be installed.
For most common flavors of Linux, binary installation packages
will be available.
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If Tcl/Tk is not installed on your system and you cannot find a binary package install for your system, you can build it from source. It can be downloaded at If you need assistance installing Tcl/Tk, check with your local system administrator. These utilities have their own install prodedures. See the installation notes for assistance.Note that these products are independent of Dataplot and we do not support them.
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