PAW
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The Physicist Analysis Workstation program (PAW) is a very general purpose
FORTRAN
program to manipulate data and produce results in graphical form. It can be
run from a wide range of workstations and terminals and can be run as a batch
job. It can produce on-screen graphics (except in batch mode!) and graphical
output to files in a range of formats including Postscript.
The component elements of PAW started out a series of independent programs each
doing largely independent jobs. In the 1980s, with the advent of widely
available workstations, it was realised that all these elements could be
drawn into a single program. So PAW was created, not by writing new
software, but by ``bolting together'' existing material in much the same way
that Frankenstein built his monster. Indeed PAW bears a striking resemblance
to the monster in that it is extremely ugly and clumsy, however, also like the
monster, it works, is powerful and is hard to ignore! These remarks are now
rather unfair, over the years at least some of the most prominent scars have
started to heal.
Some regard ROOT as a C++ replacement for PAW.
PAW is part of the
CERN Program Library
and is still available for a wide range of platforms despite the fact that
support for the CERN Program Library is falling away.
At Oxford PAW is available on Linux and NT systems.
A PAW home page, including a tutorial is available on-line at:-
http://wwwinfo.cern.ch/asd/paw/index.html
Several on-line manuals are available from the
PAW home page
I am unaware of any courses on PAW.
Check links from the
PAW home page
Check links from the
PAW home page
Check links from the
PAW home page
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