From 0ae4fa9a21fa2b0ac502a1704fe83a4453b4adda Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dima Kogan Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:06:40 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Updated README to describe the new --xlen behavior --- README | 11 ++++++----- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/README b/README index 4e13a8d..9c1b4c4 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -52,12 +52,13 @@ outputfile". The output type is inferred from the filename with .ps, .pdf and .png currently supported. If something is producing data in realtime, feedGnuplot.pl can be used to -produce a realtime display. The --stream option should be passed in along -with "--xlen windowsize". This will produce a scrolling window containing +produce a realtime display by passing in the --stream option. The "--xlen +windowsize" option can be passed in also to plot a scrolling window, containing the last windowsize-worth of data (windowsize has the units of the x axis, -whether it is a point index or the passed-in data). The scrolling window is -updated at 1 Hz, so the script can handle rapidly-incoming data without -spending all of its time replotting. +whether it is a point index or the passed-in domain). If --xlen is omitted or +set to 0, all of the available data is plotted, with no moving window. The +realtime data is updated at 1 Hz, so the script can handle rapidly-incoming data +without spending all of its time replotting. For more information, invoke with --help, or read the source.