gnuplot

An Interactive Plotting Program

Thomas Williams & Colin Kelley

Version 3.7 organized by: David Denholm

Major contributors (alphabetic order):

Copyright (C) 1986 - 1993, 1998 Thomas Williams, Colin Kelley

Mailing list for comments: info-gnuplot@dartmouth.edu

Mailing list for bug reports: bug-gnuplot@dartmouth.edu

This manual was prepared by Dick Crawford

3 December 1998


gnuplot
Commands
Graphical User Interfaces
Bugs


gnuplot

Copyright
Introduction
Seeking-assistance
What's New in version 3.7
Batch/Interactive Operation
Command-line-editing
Comments
Coordinates
Environment
Expressions
Glossary
Plotting
Start-up
Substitution
Syntax
Time/Date data


Copyright

      Copyright (C) 1986 - 1993, 1998   Thomas Williams, Colin Kelley

Permission to use, copy, and distribute this software and its documentation for any purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation.

Permission to modify the software is granted, but not the right to distribute the complete modified source code. Modifications are to be distributed as patches to the released version. Permission to distribute binaries produced by compiling modified sources is granted, provided you

  1. distribute the corresponding source modifications from the
   released version in the form of a patch file along with the binaries,
  2. add special version identification to distinguish your version
   in addition to the base release version number,
  3. provide your name and address as the primary contact for the
   support of your modified version, and
  4. retain our contact information in regard to use of the base
   software.

Permission to distribute the released version of the source code along with corresponding source modifications in the form of a patch file is granted with same provisions 2 through 4 for binary distributions.

This software is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty to the extent permitted by applicable law.

      AUTHORS

      Original Software:
         Thomas Williams,  Colin Kelley.

      Gnuplot 2.0 additions:
         Russell Lang, Dave Kotz, John Campbell.

      Gnuplot 3.0 additions:
         Gershon Elber and many others.


Introduction

gnuplot is a command-driven interactive function and data plotting program. It is case sensitive (commands and function names written in lowercase are not the same as those written in CAPS). All command names may be abbreviated as long as the abbreviation is not ambiguous. Any number of commands may appear on a line (with the exception that load or call must be the final command), separ