1DOTTY(1)                    General Commands Manual                   DOTTY(1)
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NAME

6       dotty - A Customizable Graph Editor
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SYNOPSIS

9       dotty [ -V ] [ -lmmode ] [ -ellev ] [ file ]
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DESCRIPTION

12       dotty  is  a  graph editor for the X Window System.  It may be run as a
13       standalone editor, or as a front end for applications that use  graphs.
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
21       are made by dot, which runs as a  separate  process  that  communicates
22       with lefty through pipes.
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24       If  the  input  graph  contains xdot attributes, dotty will use that to
25       display the graph. Otherwise, it runs dot to obtain layout information.
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USAGE

28       The file name is optional. If present, the graph contained in that file
29       is displayed in the dotty window.
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OPTIONS

32       -V     Prints the version.
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34       -lmmode
35              Sets the layout mode. The mode can be sync or async. The default
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38       -ellev Sets the mesage level. The lev can be 0 or 1. The default is 0.
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BUGS

41       The lefty parser does not accept anonymous graphs.
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SEE ALSO

44       dot(1), lefty(1), lneato(1), xdot(3)
45       dotty user guide.
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