PLTCL(1)

💖 PLTCL(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to pltcl(1) — a page straight out of the General Commands Manual, section 1, and yes it's short but it's iconic so let's go 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

pltcl — the Tcl interface to PLplot 🌸

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

pltcl

that's it. that's the whole vibe. no flags, no args, just run it 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so this manual page is here to give you the brief rundown on the pltcl command. lowkey concise, highkey useful, we love that for us.

pltcl is the main program for the Tcl interface to PLplot. it lets you run plotting primitives interpretively — like, you type stuff and it plots, no cap — and it does not care about the output driver at all. which driver is doing the rendering? not its problem. not its business. it just plots 🔥

the way to think about it: it's basically an extended tclsh, except it comes preloaded with knowledge of the complete PLplot Tcl API. so yeah, it's a Tcl shell that woke up and chose plotting. main character energy fr fr 👑

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

want the more details version? go read:

• /usr/share/doc/plplot/plplot.ps.gz

that's where the full tea lives, bestie 🍓

💜 AUTHOR 💜

this manual page was written by Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@debian.org>. thank you for your service, we are obsessed 🎀

and that's a wrap!! this little cutie came to you from the General Commands Manual — that's the source of the page, and the version tag is literally just PLTCL(1), so if you see a date on it, that's the manpage machinery doing its thing, not me 🙈 anyway mwah, go plot something gorgeous ✨💖