ANNOUNCE: Chart-1.0, a stripchart plotter

[John Kodis <kodis jagunet com>]

Announcing version 1.0 of chart, stripchart-like plotting program with
a file-based parameter input mechanism and a Gtk-based display
mechanism.

The chart program periodically reads data from files, extracts a
value, and displays these values in one of several formats.  The
default format is a graphical display similar to that of a stripchart
recorder.  Hence the name, "chart".

On systems such as Linux, in which the system parameters are available
in human-readable form in the /proc directory, the chart program makes
a dandy performance monitoring tool, similar to but more versatile
than xload.

Instead of being limited to a few standard performance parameters, the
chart program can plot any time-variant parameter than can be read
from a file or pipe.  This ability to read data from a pipe provides a
very versatile and easy to use method of setting up custom displays.

The chart program is available from
ftp://ftp.jagunet.com/pub/users/kodis/chart-1.0.tar.gz.  A recent
version of the Gtk toolkit is also required, and is available from the
GIMP/Gtk homepage at href=http://www.gimp.org/gtk/.

Comments, criticisms, bug reports, patches, and so forth are welcomed at
kodis@jagunet.com.

-- John Kodis.