How to avoid reading this book

If you are temperamentally opposed to reading manuals, you may still be able to figure out enough of plt to use it from a quick look at chapter 2. The doc directory of the plt distribution contains two shell scripts:

• xdemo.sh, for generating and displaying the output of plt in an X window. Start your X server (use Cygwin/X under MS-Windows) before running xdemo.sh.

• psdemo.sh, for generating and displaying PostScript output from plt via gv (freely available for Mac OS X from Fink, for MS-Windows from Cygwin, or for GNU/Linux and Unix from SourceForge). Other PostScript viewers such as ggv and gsview can also be used (see gvcat in the src directory).

Try out one or both of these scripts to see plt in action, and examine the scripts to see how they work. Of course, this book is always available when you need it!