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.SH NON-UNIX SYSTEMS
Ploticus was developed on Solaris, a unix system, and is used
without modification on Linux and other modern unix systems.
Ploticus has also been successfully used on Windows/NT systems that are
running a unix emulation environment such as Cygwin, but there are
sometimes problems that arise with getting this to work.
.LP
For version 2.00 I have tried to make the code more portable,
however the amount of assistance I can currently give for these environments is very limited.
Please let me know if there are other issues I have overlooked here.
.LP
Here are some version 2.00 notes for users on Windows/NT systems:
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No external unix shell commands are automatically issued
as long as you use proc getdata \fCpathname\fR instead of \fCfilename\fR.
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.IP \(bu
The default temp file directory is \fC/tmp\fR, and the default slash
for building file names is \fC/\fR.  This may be changed
in \fCpl.h\fR before compilation, or by setting \fCtmpdir\fR and \fCpathslash\fR in a
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.IP \(bu
The -DNOX11 compile flag may be used to eliminate X11 references from the product.

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