1DOTTY(1) General Commands Manual DOTTY(1)
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6 dotty - A Customizable Graph Editor
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9 dotty [ -V ] [ file ]
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12 dotty is a graph editor for the X Window System. It may be run as a
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14 It can control multiple windows viewing different graphs.
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16 dotty is written on top of dot and lefty. lefty is a general-purpose
17 programmable editor for technical pictures. It has an interpretive
18 programming language similar to AWK and C. The user interface and
19 graph editing operations of dotty are written as lefty functions. Pro‐
20 grammer-defined graph operations may be loaded as well. Graph layouts
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25 The file name is optional. If present, the graph contained in that file
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29 -V Prints the version.
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