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gnuplot-5.4.8p0

command-driven interactive function plotting program

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Description

Gnuplot is a command-driven interactive function plotting program. Plots any number of functions, built up of C operators, C library functions, and some things C doesn't have like **, sgn(), etc. Also support for plotting data files, to compare actual data to theoretical curves. User-defined X and Y ranges (optional auto-ranging), smart axes scaling, smart tic marks. Labelling of X and Y axes. User-defined constants and functions. Support through a generalized graphics driver for AED 512, AED 767, BBN BitGraph, Commodore Amiga, Roland DXY800A, EEPIC, TeXDraw, EmTeX, Epson 60dpi printers, Epson LX-800, Fig, HP2623, HP2648, HP75xx, HPGL, HP LaserJet II, Imagen, Iris 4D, MS-DOS Kermit, Kyocera laser printer, LaTeX, NEC CP6 pinwriter, PostScript, QMS QUIC, ReGis (VT125 and VT2xx), SCO Xenix CGI, Selanar, Star color printer, Tandy DMP-130 printer, Tek 401x, Tek 410x, Vectrix 384, VT like Tektronix emulator, Unix PC (ATT 3b1 or ATT 7300), unixplot, and X11. The PC version compiled by Microsoft C supports IBM CGA, EGA, VGA, Hercules, ATT 6300, and Corona 325 graphics. The PC version compiled by Borland C++ supports IBM CGA, EGA, MCGA, VGA, Hercules and ATT 6300 graphics. Other devices can be added simply, but will require recompiling. Shell escapes and command line substitution. Output redirection.

Package information

Ports path
math/gnuplot
Package architecture
amd64
Maintainer
Paul Irofti <paul@irofti.net>
Categories
math, graphics
Available flavors
no_cairo, no_x11
Only for architectures
aarch64, amd64, arm, i386, mips64, mips64el, powerpc, powerpc64, riscv64, alpha, hppa, sparc64, m88k, sh

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