Some suggestions for GNUPLOT...
Mark K. Seager
seager at lll-lcc.aRpA
Thu Nov 27 07:03:24 AEST 1986
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*FLAME OFF*
This is a posting because the address vu-vlsi!plot is not known by
our macine...Would rather send this directly to the authors of
GNUPLOT, but...
*FLAME ON*
I have reciently brought up GNUPLOT on a Sun 3 running Version 3.1 of
Sun's port of UNIX 4.2 Bsd. It is a very nice package for interactive
graphics, but there are a few problems.
1) The man page is not exactly verbose in it's explination of
GNUPLOT. Why not write something that takes an absolute idot
(like me) who knows nothing about GNUPLOT to being an
"expert user".
2) Normal unix (and the MS-DOS pc's) don't have the HELP
facility. The *.HLP files look like they could be of some
use, why not distribute the help package with GNUPLOT?
3) I tried to redirect the output of GNUPLOT to a file with:
set output "filename"
and the plot information still came to the stdout (although
the file was created) and not to the file. Could not
figure out if I am using GNUPLOT correctly or not from the
(lack of) documentation...
4) Any way to get support for POSTSCRIPT devices. Obviously
this would be wonderful for hardcopy output to various
laser printers.
5) Any thought to supporting 3-D plotting? Contour plots and
the ilk?
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