From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Fri Nov 21 18:37:23 1997
Subject: Re: Running Octave through a WWW server
From: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at rosebud dot ml dot org>
To: John Judge <johnj at snrc dot uow dot edu dot au>
Cc: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 19:37:15 -0500 (EST)


  John> You could also make the process a little easier by using gnuplot 3.6
  John> which lets you have a gif terminal. i.e.
  John> 
  John> gset terminal gif
  John> 
  John> and avoids the pbm to gif conversion. To size the gif try something
  John> like:
  John> 
  John> gset terminal gif size 640,480

This is not only a function of having gnuplot 3.6 (ie a 3.6 beta), but also
of having a gnuplot version with gif support. Due to the legal baggage around
gif and LZW compression, such versions can not be distributed.

All it takes, however, is to get the 'gd' library sources from
www.boutell.com, compile it and then to compile gnuplot locally. It even
autodetects libgd if the latter is installed in one of the usual places.

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