This distribution contains all known useful MGR clients.  However, some
big software packages also support MGR, but that is only a minor aspect
of them.  These are listed here, so you know what is possible right now:

  PLPLOT library, does very professional looking grafics with scaling
fonts and many special characters etc.  Until the MGR driver is part of
that package, patches can be obtained from fanchiot@nxth04.cern.ch.

Available from: hagar.ph.utexas.edu: pib/plplot


  Origami, the folding text editor.  If you are not member of an fanclub
for GNU Emacs, vi or something else yet, then give it a try.  MGR
support is still small, all you can do it click the cursor somewhere and
open/close folds.  If you intend to hack in MGR, Origami will help you a
lot, because MGR is folded using it.  Origami supports bindings similar
to Emacs, vi and MultiTool. 

Available from: ftp.thp.uni-koeln.de: pub/linux/origami/origami.tz


  GNUPlot is currently being ported, a patch is available from
fanchiot@nxth04.cern.ch.

Available from: each GNU achive.


  PBMPLUS is a package to convert grafics from one format into another,
using a portable intermediate format.  MGR bitmaps are supported, so you
can use PBMPLUS together with the client mgrview to view all kinds of
pictures, or to print MGR bitmaps.  I use it to watch GIFs on our Suns
and to create the screen.gif.

Available from: ?


  PBMTOPRT and PBMSTREAM are not MGR related in any way, but neccessary
if you ever want to print something.  Pbmtoprt is far better than
pbmtoepson, because it supports more printers and it is a lot faster.
Pbmtoprt is used for printing bitmaps created by gropbm and works fine.
Pbmstream can seperate a stream of pbm bitmaps to single files, it is
useful for things like ghostscript which outputs a stream of pbm
bitmaps.

Available from: ftp.thp.uni-koeln.de: pub/linux/mgr/pbmtoprt.tz

Michael
