ganzer@cod.NOSC.MIL (Mark T. Ganzer) (03/22/90)
I've forwarded this from the sci. groups because it may be of interst here
as well.
-Mark Ganzer
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Article 679 of sci.aeronautics:
Path: cod!nosc!ucsd!ucbvax!ucsfcgl!pixar!thaw
>From: thaw@pixar.UUCP (Tom Williams)
Newsgroups: sci.aeronautics,sci.astro,sci.bio,sci.chem,sci.econ,sci.energy,sci.math,sci.med.physics,sci.physics
Subject: Gnuplot 2.0 - free interactive plotting software
Keywords: software math data plotting
Message-ID: <9551@pixar.UUCP>
Date: 12 Mar 90 19:40:01 GMT
Reply-To: thaw@pixar.UUCP (Tom Williams)
Followup-To: comp.sources.d
Organization: Pixar -- Marin County, California
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ANNOUNCING GNUPLOT 2.0
What is Gnuplot 2.0?
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Gnuplot is a command-line driven interactive function plotting utility for
UNIX, MSDOS, and VMS platforms. The software is free. It was originally
intended as graphical program which would allow scientists and students
to visualize mathematical functions and data. Additions to this version
of the software allow production of publication quality plots and data graphs.
Gnuplot supports many different types of terminals, plotters, and printers
and is easily extensible to include new devices. [ The "GNU" in Gnuplot
is NOT related to the Free Software Foundation, the naming is just
a coincidence (and a long story). ]
Gnuplot Features:
FREE
Cartesian and Polar plots.
Logscale graphs.
Intelligent Tic spacing.
Optional Autoscaling.
Support for complex numbers.
VMS-like online help.
User-definable functions and variables.
All the builtin functions C, FORTRAN, and BASIC provide.
All the unary and binary operators supported by C, and more.
MANY formatting features, such as labels, grids, and arrows.
Support for Saving and Loading work in progress.
Command line substitution.
And lots more....
Where to obtain Gnuplot 2.0
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USENET users:
comp.sources.misc should have it posted soon.
NORTH AMERICA:
Anonymous ftp to duke.cs.duke.edu (128.109.140.1)
Fetch pub/gnuplot.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 CS.DUKE.EDU UUENCODE
USER ANONYMOUS
CD pub
BINARY
GET gnuplot.tar.Z
QUIT
US MAIL:
If you can't obtain Gnuplot 2.0 through any of the described
channels I will mail copies on IBM PC floppies. You must send
a SELF-ADDRESSED STAMPED DISK MAILER with the correct number
of FORMATTED DISKS and a description size of format of the
disks you want returned (in case the disks get separated from the
mailer). Send 1 1.2M 5.25 disk or 1 720K or 1.44M 3.5 disk, or
2 360K 5.25 disks. Turn around time may be slow. Send materials to:
GNUPLOT
48 Lyford Drive #8
Tiburon, CA 94920
attn: Thomas Williams
AUSTRALIA:
Anonymous ftp to monu1.cc.monash.edu.au (130.194.1.101).
Fetch pub/gnuplot.tar.Z in binary mode.
EUROPE:
Gnuplot will be stored in [tex-archive.gnuplot] at uk.ac.aston.tex
JANET users
FTP access is available (I regret no interactive access at present)
Site uk.ac.aston.tex
Username public
password public
top level tex-archive
MAIL access
Send a message to texserver@uk.ac.aston.tex
The message body must contain at least the following three lines
starting in column 1.
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(your address from Aston - see the end of this message)
help
Return Addressing:
Internet users name%site@nsfnet-relay
Bitnet and EARN name%site@earn-relay
UUCP name%site@ukc
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DISCLAIMER - This product is not related in any way to
Pixar or any other commercial venture.
Please send any questions or comments to pixar!info-gnuplot.
-Thomas Williams-
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I've ftp'd this from duke.cs.duke.edu and got it to compile on our 4.3BSD
system, but don't have MS C or Turbo C to compile it for MSDOS. It looks
intersting because it now contains drivers for Epson, HP Laser jet, and
Potscript printers. Hopefully, someone will recompile it for MSDOS and
upload it to Simtel soon. :-)
--
Mark T. Ganzer Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego
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