Preliminary remarks

This guide conbines the user documentation for both the HIGZ (Part I) and HPLOT (Part II) packages. They are implemented on various mainframes (e.g. IBM VM/CMS, Cray and VAX/VMS) and Unix workstations (e.g. HP, Apollo, Ultrix, IBM RS6000, Silicon Graphics and Sun).

HIGZ has been designed to provide basic graphics functions similar to GKS. HPLOT is a histogram plotting and editing system closely linked to HBOOK.

notation

Throughout this manual, all the GKS like functions are indicated as follows:

                       +--------------------------+
                       |CALL  GKSLIKE (parameters) |
                       +--------------------------+
                                  

Type of the subroutine parameters is defined by their initial letter following the usual Fortran conventions:

1. parameters starting with the letter I through N are INTEGER.
2. parameters starting with the letter A through H and O through Z are REAL.
3. in addition to the above, parameters starting with the sequence CH are of type CHARACTER.

   In the description of the routines a * following the name of a parameter indicates that this is an output parameter (e.g. OUTPAR*). If another * precedes a parameter in the calling sequence, the parameter in question is both an input and output parameter (e.g. *IOPAR*).

   Examples are in monotype face and strings to be input by the user are underlined. In the index the page where a routine is defined is in bold, ---------- page numbers where a routine is referenced are in normal type.

   This document has been produced using LaTeX [bib-LATEX] with the  cernman style option, developed at CERN. A compressed PostScript file higz.ps, containing a complete printable version of this manual, can be obtained from any CERN machine by anonymous ftp as follows (commands to be typed by the user are underlined):

         ftp asis01.cern.ch
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         Trying 128.141.201.136...
         Connected to asis01.cern.ch.
         220 asis01 FTP server (SunOS 4.1) ready.
         Name (asis01:username): anonymous
                                 ---------
         Password: your-mailaddress
         ftp> cd cernlib/doc/ps.dir
              ---------------------
         ftp> binary
              ------
         ftp> get higz.ps.Z
              -------------
         ftp> quit
              ----
   

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   PART 1: HIGZ - Reference Section