Hello linux forum -

I have a question about ".plot" files.

These files are apparently some sort of standardized unix file format from a few years back. Old school.

I seem to be stuck with some of these "plot" files and I need to be able to read them in linux.

I can display/manipulate the files using the "plot" command in either SunOS or on an AIX machine, but not in linux.

Is the 'plot' file format standard ? If AIX and Sun boxes can both read this format, natually surely some Linux program can deal with plot(1B) as well?

I went straight for Linux GNU plotutils - the program seems to support only files of the plot(5) format.
Gnu plotutils plot utility gives this error:
"plot: unrecognized command `0x90' encountered in input"

I have tried using the -h and -l (Options for Backward Compatibility) in plotutils but I get the same error.

This could be a big-endian vs. little-endian issue? The plot file format has both binary and ascii elements.

"lpr -g" is supposed to denote plot(1b) format for printing in linux, but that is about all the linux plot(1b) documentation I can find. lpr -g is not longer supported in CUPS.

Anyone else worked with these type of files before?
any advice would be much appreciated

thanks,
jk