SUMMARY

Plots one or more data files versus another data file.

SYNTAX

PLOTXY name|number  name|number  { name|number ... }

INPUT

name:	The name of a data file in the data file list.
number:	The number of a data file in the data file list.

DESCRIPTION

This command lets you plot one or more data files versus another data file. The first data file you select (either by name or number) becomes the independent variable and is plotted along the x axis. The remainder of the data files you select become the dependent variables and are plotted along the y axis. All of the graphics environment commands such as TITLE, LINE, and SYMBOL can be used to control attributes about the plot.

This command can be used to easily plot multi-columned data that has been read in with the READALPHA command. In this case it can be viewed as a spreadsheet like plotting command. An example is given below.

EXAMPLES

Assume you have an ascii file that contains four columns of numbers. You wish to read these into SAC and plot various columns versus each other. The following commands would read this file in and store it as four separate data files inside SAC, turn linestyle incrementing on and then plot the first, third, and fourth columns versus the second column:

SAC> READALPHA CONTENT YNNN MYFILE
SAC> LINE INCREMENT ON
SAC> PLOTXY 2 1 3 4

LATEST REVISION

April 21, 1989 (Version 10.4c)