That's a function of your compiler and its support libraries.  You should read your maunal.

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Here is one approach.  I wrote a program to do this for myself.  I share it freely with others but it is limited in capability and there is no support.  You can download a freeware plotting program called ES-Plot from:
http://www.engineering.usu.edu/mae/faculty/stevef/prg/ESPlot/index.html
You have your program write a data file containing the data to be plotted and use a system call to bring up the ES-plot program.  Here is a simple example program that creates a data file of trig. functions:

   integer i
   real x
   open(10,file='test.dat',status='unknown')
   do i=1,20
      x = i/20.*2.*3.14159
      write(10,*) x, cos(x), sin(x), sin(x)*cos(x)
   enddo
   close(10)
   call system('"c:\program files\esplot10\esplot.exe" test.dat')
   end

If you're using the salford compiler, it has some built in plotting functions.  If you're sticking to gnu there is something called gnuplot.  As IRStuff says, it depends on your compiler.  What compiler/OS are you using?

Hi there:

I do know that this is a Fortran Forum and that the desire is to do the plotting by using Fortan.

My suggestion is as follws: take the data to MS Office Suite and do quick plotting in either MS Excel and/or MS PowerPoint.

In no time you can get the plots. There is no programming involved and changes are quick.  One can try out so many different built in options -- even custom made options are available.

In MS PowerPoint, one can create either GIF and/or JPG files from the polts and get them ready for presentations and web use.

Long time ago, when Fortran plotting was the only known option for me, I did lots of plotting by using Fortran.  It does take some time to get it lined up.

Since MS Office Suite and other GUI plotting packages are available today, why not try to consider them as an option.

Here a few examples of MS Office Suite plots:











Thanks,

Gordan Feric, PE
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Hallo everybody and thanks for the answers.

I just check now this forum.

I will try the differents options that you propose me but at the moment I was trying to use gnuplot. My OS is windows and I am trying to launch it from fortran like this:

h=system('D:\gpt35win\gnuplot> load"surface"')

where surface is the script where all the settings are. But it seems tht it doesn't work.


Thanks again,
Albert

Load is not a DOS command

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Yes IRstuff,

load is a command of windows gnuplot. Do you know which command can be used to launch the gnuplot script from windows?

thanks,
Albert

Perhaps one can consult the manual:
http://www.gnuplot.info/docs/node458.html

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To All:

My assumption is that you already have a data set that needs to be plotted.

Therefore,  my suggestion is to move the data set to a Windows based application such as MS Office Suite and get it done in no time.

If you try to get it done through Fortan and its libraries, it will take some time and effort just to find out how it is done and then it vwill take some additional time to get it plotting correctly.

If I am not mistaken, the output Fortan files cannot be shared smoothly with other users ...

Thanks,

Gordan Feric, PE
Engineering Software
http://members.aol.com/engware