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The <a href="http://www.cygwin.com/" target="other">Cygwin</a> environment
for MS-Windows now includes a high-quality, free X11 server, X11 clients,
and an X11 development package including the standard X11 libraries and
include (<tt>*.h</tt>) files. If you have installed the Cygwin X11 packages,
the X11 version of <tt>plt</tt> (<tt>xplt</tt>) will be compiled and installed
automatically if you follow the standard instructions for installing
<tt>plt</tt> under MS-Windows.
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To use <tt>xplt</tt>, you must be running the X server, which you can do using
the command <tt>startx</tt> in a Cygwin terminal emulator window. The default
installation starts the X11 server, the <tt>fvwm</tt> window manager, and
several <tt>xterm</tt> windows. From any of these terminal windows, you can
run <tt>plt</tt> as described in the <a href="plt/html/book.html"> <tt>plt</tt>
Tutorial and Cookbook</a>, following the instructions for running Unix versions
of <tt>plt</tt>. If you have not tried this previously, you may want to try
running "<tt>make xdemo</tt>" from the <tt>doc</tt> directory of the
<tt>plt</tt> source package to see how this works.
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The <tt>fvwm</tt> window manager displays a frame whenever a new window is
to be opened; use the mouse to drag the window to the desired position, then
resize it by clicking and dragging the window edges as desired. Once the
window has been placed and sized in this way, its contents will appear.
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