Download:
-
XLispStat: You need to install the
latest version of XLispStat. Further information
is available from the XLispStat site and
from my XLispStat
page.
- ViSta
for Unix: The port of ViSta 5.0.5
has one fairly serious bug: The datasheat
editor doesn't work; after using it, all
other ViSta windows get confused. This
problem can be avoided by using the File
menu's Load Data menu item rather than
the Open Data item. In addition, ViSta
will die if not enough colors are available
(which can be easily circumvented by specifying
a lower number of colors). Finally, saving
preferences may fail, because this tries
to write into the installation path, which
is usual readonly. ViSta may be obtained
in two ways:
- Download ViSta
5.0.5 (399K).
- Ftp ViSta for Unix directly
from 192.41.30.119/pub/visuaftp/ViSta/unix.
- Documentation for
ViSta is available in several formats.
- Once you have downloaded ViSta and the
documentation you have to un-compress and
un-tar the downloaded files. The compression
format used is GNU "gzip" (*.gz). The GNU
gzip tool is available via anonymous ftp
from the GNU library at prep.ai.mit.edu.
Install ViSta 5.0.5:
The following are needed for installation:
tar, gzip, make, xlispstat and sed
- After extracting vista.tar.gz
cat vista-5.0.5.tar.gz | gzip -dc | tar xvf -
- Edit Makeconf to meet your local
settings.
You need to specify (defaults: )
XLISP - the path to your xlispstat binary (/usr/local/bin/xlispstat)
DEST - the path for vista files (/usr/local/lib/vista )
BINDEST - the path for the start script (/usr/local/bin/vista )
- Then type:
make
and (with appropriate privileges)
make install
Set ViSta's Font Sizes - Method 1:
It is recommended that you set the default
font sizes for ViSta to improve the appearance
of the graphics, menus and dialogs. This can
be done by creating (or appending) a file
named
.Xdefaults
in your home directory. This file should contain
the lines
xlisp*menu*font: 8x13
xlisp*dialog*font: 8x13
xlisp*graph*font: 8x13
Set ViSta's Font Sizes - Method 2:
The following script should automatically
add resources for xlisp fonts to your .Xdefaults
file or create the file if it doesn't already
exist. If any xlisp resources already exist,
then it leaves the file alone. The script
then starts ViSta.
if [ -f $HOME/.Xdefaults ]
; then grep "^xlisp" $HOME/.Xdefaults > /dev/null
2>&1 if [ $? !=
0 ] ; then echo
Appending to $HOME/.Xdefaults cat
< >$HOME/.Xdefaults
xlisp*menu*font:
8x13 xlisp*dialog*font:
8x13 xlisp*graph*font:
8x13 EOF
fi
else
echo
Creating $HOME/.Xdefaults cat
< >$HOME/.Xdefaults
xlisp*menu*font: 8x13
xlisp*dialog*font: 8x13
xlisp*graph*font: 8x13
EOF
fi
xlispstat /usr/local/src/xlispstat/vista/statinit.lsp
Run ViSta:
- In a shell window (xterm, rxvt or similar),
you invoke ViSta (via XLispStat) by typing:
xlispstat /home/myname/vista/vista/statinit.lsp
where xlispstat
is the name of the executable for XLispStat,
and where /home/myname/vista
is the name of the directory containing
ViSta.
- If you are in the directory containing
the statinit.lsp file, you should
only type: xlispstat
- If you built the shell script vista
described in the optional step #4 of "Installing
ViSta" then simply type: vista
Hardware and Software Requirements:
ViSta for Unix requires X11R5 or higher (it
has been tested on X11R6 and X11R6.1).
ViSta for Unix also requires xlispstat
version 3.52.5. It will not work with versions
pre 3.52. Xlispstat-3.52.5 compiled out
of the box on linux (S.u.S.E. 5.2) and DEC
Alpha (Digital unix 4.0D) machines.
Earlier versions of ViSta for Unix were
developed and tested on a Sun SPARCStation
20/50 running Solaris 2.4 and 2.5, on DECstation
models 5000/120 and 5500 running Ultrix
V4.2A, and on Sun IPC and IPX workstations
running SunOS 4.1.3.
Thanks:
Thanks to Albrecht Gebhardt for the port
of ViSta 5.0.5 to Unix. Thanks to Tony Rossini
(University of South Carolina, Department
of Statistics) and Charles Kurak (University
of North Carolina Computer Science Department)
for their countless hours spent on the development
of the earlier Unix versions.
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