From: VAXN::LAO
Date: 16-OCT-1993  12:23:31
Description: NCAR on HP Workstations                                 

A NCAR driver is now available on the HP workstations to process the
EFIT graphic file pltout.out.  This was developed and nicely put
together by Razia Shoyeb.  Please ask her for detailed questions
on NCAR.  A meta file gmeta is produced from pltout.out using the
post processor plot_n and can be sent to screens or postscript
printers.
 
Set ITEK=5 to produce the usual graphic file pltout.out as before.
Then execute the post processor plot_n located in the
/link/efit area.  This will produce a meta file
gmeta, which can then be view using the usual ncar
translator ctrans.
 
A convenient way to view the plots is to define in your
login script file the two commands distek for plotting
on vt/tektronic terminals and xtek for plotting on x terminals
using the alias commands
 
  distek for ctrans -d t4010 gmeta
  xtek   for ctrans -d X11   gmeta
 
To use the ctrans command, you need to include in the path
statement the area /unixdisk/ncarg/hp-ux/bin in your login
script file on the UNIX stations.
 
To send it to postscript printers, first translate gmeta to a
postscript file using the ctrans command
 
  ctrans -d ps.mono gmeta > gmeta.ps
 
The postscript file gmeta.ps can then be sent to a postscript
printer as usual (see the previous two messages by Joe Freeman).
You may want to define an alias ps in your login script to simplify
the process
 
  ps for ctrans -d ps.mono gmeta > gmeta.ps