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Gnuplot
     
         A command-driven interactive graphing program.  Gnuplot
        can plot two-dimensional functions and data points in many
        different styles (points, lines, error bars); and
        three-dimensional data points and surfaces in many different
        styles (contour plot, mesh).  It supports {complex} arithmetic
        and user-defined functions and can label title, axes, and data
        points.  It can output to several different graphics file
        formats and devices.  Command line editing and history are
        supported and there is extensive on-line help.
     
        Gnuplot is {copyright}ed, but freely distributable.  It was
        written by Thomas Williams, Colin Kelley, Russell Lang, Dave
        Kotz, John Campbell, Gershon Elber, Alexander Woo and many
        others.  Despite its name, gnuplot is not related to the {GNU}
        project or the {FSF} in any but the most peripheral sense.  It
        was designed completely independently and is not covered by
        the {General Public License}.  However, the {FSF} has decided
        to distribute gnuplot as part of the {GNU} system, because it
        is useful, redistributable software.
     
        Gnuplot is available for: {Unix} ({X11} and {NEXTSTEP}),
        {VAX}/{VMS}, {OS/2}, {MS-DOS}, {Amiga}, {MS-Windows},
        {OS-9}/68k, {Atari ST} and {Macintosh}.
     
        E-mail: .
     
        {FAQ} - {Germany
        (http://fg70.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de/~ig25/gnuplot-faq/)}, {UK
        (ftp://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/usenet/news-info/comp.graphics.gnuplot)},
        {USA
       
     (http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/graphics/gnuplot-faq/faq.html)}.
     
        {Usenet} newsgroup: {news:comp.graphics.gnuplot}.
     
        (1995-05-04)