Installation instructions
Installation instructions |
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Extract the downloaded archive file (plt.zip) into this new folder. After the unzip operation the new folder will contain the files shown below. Assuming you allowed your unzipper to preserve the directory structure, the 20 example programs will appear in a subdirectory called demo. It will be convenient to also add this demo directory to your MatLab path, or you can run them by using the MatLab cd command to make the demo folder active.
| plt.p | MatLab code for plt in p-code format |
| vbar.m | for displaying functions as vertical bars |
| ebar.m | for displaying error bar plots |
| quiv.m | for displaying vector fields (arrows) |
| contents.m | brief help text |
| plt.chm | full help documentation (compiled html) |
| html.zip | this archive contains the full help documentation (standard html) |
| pltdll.zip | This archive contains the single file plt.dll which is only useful for compiled applications using the older Matlab compiler (ver 2.2) that shipped with Matlab 6.1. Feel free to delete this file if you are not using that compiler. |
| demo\plt5.m demo\plt50.m demo\pltn.m demo\pltvbar.m demo\pltquiv.m demo\gauss.m demo\tasplt.m demo\movbar.m demo\winplt.m demo\subplt.m demo\subplt8.m demo\weight.m demo\editz.m demo\dice.m demo\curves.m demo\pltvar.m demo\bounce.m demo\pltsq.m demo\wfall.m demo\circles12.m |
Example programs. For descriptions, click here |
| demo\demoplt.m | Auto sequences through all 20 examples (in the order of the files shown above) |
The installation is complete. If you type plt help or if you click on the "Help" tag in the plt menu box, then plt.chm is opened with the Windows help system. If you prefer to use your html browser instead, delete or rename the plt.chm file and follow the instructions for Unix based systems below.
Since Unix systems don't have a universal method of displaying compiled help files, the help system is also supplied as standard html. Assuming you want to use the help system you should unzip html.zip into the plt directory. Make sure you preserve the directory structure stored in html.zip since otherwise the browser will not be able to navigate the help files. Typing plt help will open plt.htm with the default browser.