From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29746 invoked by alias); 26 Nov 2003 19:31:50 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-announce-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-announce-owner@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 5515 invoked from network); 26 Nov 2003 09:30:42 -0000 From: "Dr. Volker Zell" Subject: New package: gnuplot-3.8j.0-1 To: cygwin-xfree-announce@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Cygwin XFree Mailing List Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 19:31:00 -0000 Message-ID: <87he0rjx51.fsf@vzell-de.de.oracle.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2003-11/txt/msg00009.txt.bz2 List-Id: The package 'gnuplot' is now available with the Cygwin distribution. o http://gnuplot.info/ (Homepage) o http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuplot/ (Download location) DESCRIPTION: ============ Gnuplot is a command-line driven interactive function plotting utility for UNIX, MSDOS, VMS, and many other platforms. The software is copyrighted but freely distributed (i.e., you don't have to pay for it). It was originally intended as graphical program which would allow scientists and students to visualize mathematical functions and data. Gnuplot supports many different types of terminals, plotters, and printers (including many color devices, and pseudo-devices like LaTeX) 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; see the gnuplot FAQ for details). Thus gnuplot is not covered by the Gnu copyleft, but rather by its own copyright statement, included in all source code files.] Gnuplot handles both curves (2 dimensions) and surfaces (3 dimensions). Surfaces can be plotted as a mesh fitting the specified function, floating in the 3-d coordinate space, or as a contour plot on the x-y plane. For 2-d plots, there are also many plot styles, including lines, points, lines with points, error bars, and impulses (crude bar graphs). Graphs may be labeled with arbitrary labels and arrows, axes labels, a title, date and time, and a key. The interface includes command-line editing and history on most platforms. Enjoy! Volker -- To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Once you've downloaded setup.exe, run it and select "Graphics" and then click on the appropriate fields until the above announced version numbers appear if they are not displayed already. If your mirror doesn't yet have the latest version of this package after 24 hours, you can either continue to wait for that site to be updated or you can try to find another mirror. Please send questions or comments to the Cygwin/X mailing list at: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com If you want to subscribe go to: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/ I would appreciate if you would use this mailing list rather than emailing me directly. This includes ideas and comments about the setup utility or Cygwin/X in general. If you want to make a point or ask a question the Cygwin/X mailing list is the appropriate place.