On Monday, Dec 27, 2004, at 15:58 US/Central, Jon Drews wrote:
Sure, you can forward it. Here is the website for Gnuplot:
http://www.gnuplot.info/
links for Windows and Solaris packages too. A Mac os X port is underway.

Thanks, Jon. Below is the latest message. The other person wanted to know if gnuplot would run on an older machine and in text mode. So I glanced quickly through the help system (not too bad) and came up with the example below.


Again, thanks for your pointers.

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On Tuesday, Dec 28, 2004, at 12:26 US/Central, Robert Citek wrote:
Here's a sample:

gnuplot> set terminal dumb
Terminal type set to 'dumb'
Options are 'feed  79 24'
gnuplot> plot sin(x)


1 ++----------------**---------------+----**-----------+--------**-----> ++
+ *+ * + * * + sin(x) ****** +
0.8 ++ * * * * * * ++
| * * * * * * |
0.6 ++ * * * * * * ++
* * * * * * * |
0.4 +* * * * * * * ++
|* * * * * * * |
0.2 +* * * * * * * ++
| * * * * * * * |
0 ++* * * * * * *++
| * * * * * * *|
-0.2 ++ * * * * * * *+
| * * * * * * *|
-0.4 ++ * * * * * * *+
| * * * * * * *
-0.6 ++ * * * * * * ++
| * * * * * * |
-0.8 ++ * * * * * * ++
+ * * + * * + * * +
-1 ++-----**---------+----------**----+---------------**+---------------> ++
-10 -5 0 5 10


gnuplot>

For a tutorial on GnuPlot:

  http://www.cs.uni.edu/Help/gnuplot/

From a quick glance through the on-line help system, it looks as though gnuplot can generate pdf, png, gif, and other formats, which makes it useful in a web environment. Hmmm, now that would be a neat project: a web interface to gnuplot using php. As a prototype, these worked:

$ echo 'set terminal dumb ; plot sin(x)' | gnuplot
$ echo 'set terminal png ; set output "gnuplot.sine.png" ; plot sin(x)' | gnuplot


BTW, the above was run on a P133 w/64 MB RAM and a 2 GB HDD running Fedora Core 3 and GnuPlot 4.0.0-4 . For info on how FC3 was > installed:

  http://www.cwelug.org/cgi-bin/wiki.cgi?FedoraCore3

Good luck and let us know how things go.

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