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- GNUPLOT is a command-driven interactive function plotting program. It
- is case sensitive (commands and function names written in lowercase
- are not the same as those written in CAPS). All command names may be
- abbreviated, as long as the abbreviation is not ambiguous. Any number
- of commands may appear on a line, separated by semicolons (;).
- Strings are indicated with quotes. They may be either single or double
- quotation marks, e.g.,
-
- load "filename"
- cd 'dir'
-
- Any command-line arguments are assumed to be names of files containing
- GNUPLOT commands, with the exception of standard X11 arguments, which
- are processed first. Each file is loaded with the `load` command, in the
- order specified. GNUPLOT exits after the last file is processed. When
- no load files are named, gnuplot enters into an interactive mode.
-
- Commands may extend over several input lines, by ending each
- line but the last with a backslash (\). The backslash must be the LAST
- character on each line. The effect is as if the backslash and newline
- were not there. That is, no white space is implied, nor is a comment
- terminated. Therefore, commenting out a continued line comments out
- the entire command (see `comment`).
-
- For help on any topic, type `help` followed by the name of the topic.
-
- The new GNUPLOT user should begin by reading about the `plot`
- command (type `help plot`). The manual for gnuplot can be printed
- either with TeX, troff or nroff. Look at the docs/Makefile for
- the appropriate option.
-
- Where to get updates to GNUPLOT
-
- Congratulations on getting this version of GNUPLOT! Unfortunately, it
- may not be the most recent version ("you never know where this version
- has been!"). You can be sure that it IS the most recent version by
- checking one of the official distribution sites, guaranteed to be kept
- up to date (of course, if you got this file from one of those sites,
- you don't need to check!).
-
- To hear automatically about future releases (and other GNUPLOT news),
- join the mailing list; see below.
-
- At the time of this writing, the following are the official
- distribution sites and transfer instructions. Note that
- prep.ai.mit.edu is NOT an official site, and may not be up to date.
- Also, comp.sources.misc is usually a month or so behind us.
-
- Date: Sun Mar 1 20:45:52 EDT 1992
- Version: 3.2
-
- In general, GNUPLOT 3.2 is available as the file gnuplot3.2.tar.Z.
- There are patches which bring GNUPLOT 3.0 up to 3.1 and patches
- which bring GNUPLOT 3.1 up to GNUPLOT 3.2. The latter are in
- the file gnuplot3.2.shar.Z.
- There are no patches that bring GNUPLOT 2.02 up to 3.0, so you must
- obtain the whole new release.
- Please obtain gnuplot from the site
- nearest you.
-
- USENET users:
-
- GNUPLOT 3.2 was posted to comp.sources.misc.
-
-
- NORTH AMERICA:
-
- Anonymous ftp to dartmouth.edu (129.170.16.4)
- Fetch
- pub/gnuplot/gnuplot3.2.tar.Z
- in binary mode.
-
- Users without ftp capability can obtain it through a mail ftp
- server. Send a mail message saying 'help' to
- BITFTP@pucc.princeton.edu for instructions. For a uuencoded
- copy of the gnuplot sources (compressed tar file), send this
- message to BITFTP@pucc.princeton.edu:
- FTP DARTMOUTH.EDU UUENCODE
- USER ANONYMOUS
- CD pub/gnuplot
- BINARY
- GET gnuplot3.2.tar.Z
- QUIT
-
-
- AUSTRALIA:
-
- Anonymous ftp to monu1.cc.monash.edu.au (130.194.1.101).
- Fetch pub/gnuplot3.2.tar.Z in binary mode.
-
-
- EUROPE:
-
- Anonymous ftp to irisa.irisa.fr (131.254.2.3).
- Fetch pub/gnuplot3.2.tar.Z in binary mode.
-
- ----
-
- DISCLAIMER - This product is not related in any way to
- Pixar or any other commercial venture.
-
- ----
- CONTACTS:
- Please send any questions or comments to
- info-gnuplot@ames.arc.nasa.gov.
- To join the above mailing list (or get yourself off), mail to
- info-gnuplot-request@ames.arc.nasa.gov.
- Send bug reports and problems to
- bug-gnuplot@ames.arc.nasa.gov.
-
- -Thomas Williams-
-
-