[comp.text.tex] Gnuplot 2.0 announcement

dfk@grad13.cs.duke.edu (David F. Kotz) (03/20/90)

I think this announcement missed this group. All former GnuTeX users,
please take note. This program is relevant to comp.text.tex since it
can produce graphs for inclusion in LaTeX documents.


                        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
has nothing to do with 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
  
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                                        -Thomas Williams-

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