1. NAME AND TITLE

PLOTTAB-89.1: Plot Continuous Curves or Discrete Points.

2. CONTRIBUTOR

International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, Austria, through the NEA Data Bank, France.

3. CODING LANGUAGE AND COMPUTER

Fortran 77; IBM PC/AT; VAX 8810.

4. NATURE OF PROBLEM SOLVED

PLOTTAB is designed to plot any combination of continuous curves and/or discrete points (with associated error bars) using user-supplied titles and x and y axis labels and units.

5. METHOD OF SOLUTION

The program uses a simple Calcomp-like graphics interface which requires only 3 subroutines: PLOTS, PLOT and PEN. All characters and symbols are drawn using tables or pen strokes supplied with this program. Using this method, the program should be simple to interface to virtually any plotter or graphics terminal.

6. RESTRICTIONS OR LIMITATIONS

None noted.

7. TYPICAL RUNNING TIME

The NEA Data Bank noted a time of 7 seconds on the VAX 8810 using the supplied sample case.

8. COMPUTER HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS

The code runs on virtually any type or computer from large mainframes down to an IBM PC/AT and requires a plotter or graphics terminal. The program requires a Calcomp-like graphics interface.

9. COMPUTER SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS

IBM Professional Fortran Version 1.0 was used for the IBM PC/AT.

10. REFERENCES

D. E. Cullen and P. K. McLaughlin, "Implementing and Testing Program PLOTTAB," IAEA-NDS-83 (January 1988).

D. E. Cullen, "Program PLOTTAB," IAEA-NDS-82 (June 1987).

11. CONTENTS OF CODE PACKAGE

Included is the referenced documents and one (1.2 MB) DOS diskette containing source files and sample cases.

12. DATE OF ABSTRACT

June 1989; December 1990.