Lotus 1-2-3 files with extensions .WKS, .WK1, .WK3, .WK4.
See Program Highlights for general information about PlotIT. If you want specific information about the PlotIT worksheet or its graphics features, press the TAB key to select the desired Help topic and then press ENTER. With the mouse, point to the desired topic and click the mouse button.
Worksheet Features:
data analysis and curve fitting
Graph Features:
Script Features:
The PlotIT Script Language can be used to develop scripts to automate data analysis and graphing procedures; to create user-defined button commands for the PowerBar, and to control PlotIT through DDE links using the DDE Execute() command. The Script Language consists of commands and parameter lists. If you are familiar with other batch processing or macro languages, the terms functions and arguments are respective equivalents for commands and parameter lists. You can use scripts to automate anything that you might do manually, such as invoking menu commands, displaying dialog boxes, selecting options within dialog boxes, selecting graph elements, or highlighting worksheet ranges.
Data Files Supported:
The PlotIT program can read data into a Worksheet document from files in a variety of formats. When working with a Graph document, you can plot data from files in the same formats. Curve and Surface elements can also be defined using FORTRAN equations. The filename extension indicates one of the following file formats:
Lotus 1-2-3 files with extensions .WKS, .WK1, .WK3, .WK4.
Quattro and Quattro Pro files with extensions .WKQ, .WQ1, .WB1.
Excel (2.0, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0) files with the extension .XLS.
dBASE (II, III, IV) files with the extension .DBF.
PlotIT standard data files .SDF. An SDF file stores data in a binary format and contains only (x), (x,y), or (x,y,z) data. The data in an SDF may be real, logical, or temporal.
PlotIT standard grid files with the extension .SGF in the filename. The Grid Generation command on the Math menu is used to create an SGF file. Like SDF files, data are stored in SGF files in a binary format. SGF files must be used to create Contour curve types and 3D surfaces.
ASCII files(comma, space, tab delimited) which are not recognized as one of the previously listed formats. The maximum line length of an ASCII file is 2048 characters (including end-of-line markers). Longer lines may result in incorrect file reads.