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? -------------------- 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 --------------------------- 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. --- (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 ---- 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- ---- Thomas Williams PIXAR {ucbvax|sun}!pixar!thaw ---- Department of Computer Science, Duke University, Durham, NC 27706 USA ARPA: dfk@cs.duke.edu CSNET: dfk@duke UUCP: decvax!duke!dfk