A new plotting/data display freeware package is available for unix systems. It includes a tutorial that describes various plot types and ways of looking at data. Perhaps some readers of this newsgroup may find it useful, maybe even to share with their students. Thanks, Steve Title: ploticus 1.31 Freeware Type: plotting/data display package for Unix Home Page: http://www.sgpr.net Distribution: Free source code; pre-compiled binaries some platforms Summary: Produces full-color lineplots, bargraphs, histograms, scatterplots, pie graphs, rangebars, boxplots, tables, tabular plots etc. Many labeling and style features. Produce graphs for publications, slides, posters, web pages and intranets. Plots from tabular data sets. Handles numeric, date, time, and alphanumeric data. Script-driven, non-interactive. Can render in Postscript, PNG, GIF, or X11. Originally written in clinical trials / biostatistics organization. Successor to IPL 2.1. Unix freeware; source code available. Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.