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Chapter 49 Working with Numbers
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ipl
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One of the weaknesses of
sc
(49.8
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is that it doesn't provide the graphics that people now
expect from a spreadsheet.
However, all is not lost.
ipl
produces business graphics using PostScript (or SunView)
for output.
It provides scatterplots, line plots, bar graphs,
pie charts, schedule charts, and maps of the U.S. and Canada. |
There are a variety of formatting commands (best learned by studying
the examples supplied with the ipl
distribution).
The data is
expected to be field-oriented, with white space as a separator.
With
a little massaging, you can get this out of sc
(and of course,
from many other UNIX programs).
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