Where to get updates to GNUPLOT
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Date: Wed Sep 18 20:45:52 EDT 1991
Version: 3.0
In general, GNUPLOT 3.0 is available as the file gnuplot3.0.tar.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 3.0 was posted to comp.sources.misc.
NORTH AMERICA:
Anonymous ftp to dartmouth.edu (129.170.16.4)
Fetch
pub/gnuplot/gnuplot3.0.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 gnuplot3.0.tar.Z
QUIT
AUSTRALIA:
Anonymous ftp to monu1.cc.monash.edu.au (130.194.1.101).
Fetch pub/gnuplot3.0.tar.Z in binary mode.
EUROPE:
Anonymous ftp to irisa.irisa.fr (131.254.2.3).
Fetch pub/gnuplot3.0.tar.Z in binary mode.
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-Thomas Williams-
SOME NOTES ON GNUPLOT ON THE AMIGA ...
Environment Variables:
GNUFONT You can say "setenv GNUFONT <Fontname>/<Pointsize>" to get the font
of your liking on the screen, e.g. "setenv GNUFONT sapphire/14".
Otherwise gnuplot will select the default-font you chose with
"Preferences".
GNUHELP Allows you to define a pathname for the GNUPlot help file. For
example, "setenv GNUHELP TEX:gnuplot.gih"
GNUPLOT Your current directory is searched for the file ".gnuplot".
If you say "setenv GNUPLOT <Path>" (without the filename!)
GNUPlot will look for it there.
GNUTERM You can define a default driver with "setenv GNUTERM <driver>".
A good choice is "setenv GNUTERM amiga" :^)
SHELL If you don't like "NewShell" as your shell, you can say
"setenv SHELL <Shell>".
Stack Size:
Set your stack to at least 20000 and you'll be fine (I hope).
If you're using the integral feature, a stack size of at least 70000
is necessary (at least it is for "bivariat.demo" to execute).
-------------------------- LATTICE C VERSION ------------------------------
Default paths/directories:
Gnuplot looks for the file "gnuplot.gih" in your "S:"-directory unless you
specify the full pathname including the filename via "setenv GNUHELP".
Bugs/deficiencies:
The SAS/C 5.1 library routine [fs]scanf will not correctly handle
format-strings like "%[^\n]s". Maybe this will be fixed by SAS in future
versions.
When using "%g" as format-string, SAS/C 5.1 [fs]printf will incorrectly
output "0" as "0.". This looks rather ugly as a axis-label.
SAS/C 5.1 bugs:
SAS/C 5.1 [fs]scanf will count parameters overread with the "%*s" format-
string as properly matched. I included a fix for this by counting the
"%*"-sequences in the given format-string. Therfore the "*" must immediately
follow the "%" (I don't know if it's legal to put something in-between
these two characters anyway...).
If you start a shell via the gnuplot "shell"-command you won't be able to
close your CLI/Shell again. This is probably due to an error in the
SAS/C "system"-call.
"isatty(fileno(stdin))" did not work correctly. A fix is included.
SAS/C does not seem to handle float-parameters in function-calls and
-declarations correctly. (This cost me at least 2 hours to figure out >:-( ).
See the latex- and eepic-drivers for details.
--------------------------- AZTEC C VERSION -------------------------------
Default paths/directories:
GNUPlot looks for the "gnuplot.gih" file in "GNUPLOT:docs/gnuplot.gih" if
GNUHELP is not defined. This is defined in the makefile (makefile.ami).
Terminal Drivers:
The Aztec C version can now use the "amiga.trm" driver written by
Carsten Steger. Under KS/WB 2.0, a custom screen will be used with a size
specified by the Prefs/Overscan program.
A note to former Gnutex users, from David Kotz (David.Kotz@Dartmouth.edu). -------------------------------------------------------------------------- May 30, 1991 GNUTeX was merged with GNUPLOT beginning with GNUPLOT 2.0. Many aspects of gnutex 1.6 made it into GNUPLOT 2.0. Unfortunately for those of us who have a lot of gnutex input files around, not everything from gnutex is supported by GNUPLOT. To help gnutex users with the process of adapting to GNUPLOT (and I recommend it), I have included a section in the LaTeX/GNUPLOT tutorial (in ./docs/latextut/) about the differences, and written a translator program. Please read the LaTeX/GNUPLOT tutorial. The translator was available as part of the GNUPLOT 2.0 release, but has been removed from the standard distribution of GNUPLOT. The translator is now available for anonymous ftp from cs.duke.edu as dist/sources/gnuplot/gnut2p.tar.Z. It has not changed since GNUPLOT 2.01 (ie, GNUPLOT 2.0 patchlevel 1). Users of gnutex that did not use the LaTeX driver will probably have little difficulty adapting. Please send all comments, complaints, and suggestions on this subject to David.Kotz@Dartmouth.edu.
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