7 The full documentation including all examples, the info-pages and a
8 tutorial has been split off to a separate gnuplot-doc package.
10 You can also find useful information on the following websites:
14 http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/faq/faq.html
16 - not so Frequently Asked Questions:
18 http://t16web.lanl.gov/Kawano/gnuplot/index-e.html
20 - Tutorial (in german)
22 http://www.we.fh-osnabrueck.de/fbwe/vorlesung/edv2/gplot/gplot.html
24 - collection of websites with gnuplot-help/more tutorials
26 http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/help.html
32 I've dropped the svgalib-support for the following reasons:
34 a) the SUID-bit has to be set which is a security risk
35 b) the dependency on both svgalib and svgalib-dummy has to be crudely
36 hacked into the package
37 c) all these tricks only have to be done to support graphics no one
38 uses on only one architecture :-(
39 d) even upstream decided to disable svgalib by default
45 Yes, the built in readline of gnuplot is bad. However, libreadline
46 cannot be used instead because it is licensed under the GPL, whereas
47 gnuplot has special licenses (patches only). Distribution of those
48 programs linked together is legally impossible but you may rebuild
49 your own custom package with readline. Please don't file bugs telling
50 me to use libreadline in gnuplot...
52 Interfaces to other languages
53 -----------------------------
55 If you want to send gnuplot commands from inside your program, the
56 following packages may help you (Beware: I haven't tested them!):
58 Available as Debian package:
62 Not available as Debian package:
64 interface to ANSI C: http://ndevilla.free.fr/gnuplot/
66 Feel free to send me more information to be included in this place!
68 -- Cyril Bouthors <cyril@bouthors.org>, Fri, 31 Mar 2006 18:48:52 +0200