From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Fri Feb 20 23:34:30 1998
Subject: Re: gnuplot for win32-octave
From: Mumit Khan <khan at xraylith dot wisc dot edu>
To: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 23:34:27 -0600 (CST)

On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, John W. Eaton wrote:

> On 17-Feb-1998, Thomas Hoffmann <hoffmann at ehmgs2 dot et dot tu-dresden dot de> wrote:
> 
> I'm not even sure if you can build the patched version of gnuplot
> using the gnu-win32 tools (perhaps Mumit Khan can say for sure).
> You might be able to build it with some other Windows-based C
> compiler.

I know that most of it compiled just fine, but back then the resource
compiler was just too immature to handle the pull down menus. I suppose
I'll revisit the question again now that the resource compiler (windres)
is quite a bit better and also that gnuplot folks have somewhat relaxed
the license. 

I have about 5 messages from various Octave users in the last few days
forwarding me the new license, and now it looks like it's ok to distribute
modified binaries provided it clearly says that it's not the supported
version, and so on.

I'll give it a shot early March and let the list know.

For the long term, John's plan of switching is definitely the right way to
go. 

Mumit