From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Wed Jul 7 10:26:52 1999 Subject: Re: gnuplot, ignore if tired of thread From: Thomas Walter To: doolin at cs dot utk dot edu CC: Daniel dot Heiserer at bmw dot de, doolin@cs.utk.edu, help-octave@bevo.che.wisc.edu Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:26:39 +0200 >>>>> "David" == David Doolin writes: [snip] David> No, it's not, really, because gnuplot will become slowly irrelevant David> over the next several years. But, under a better license (GPL), David> gnuplot could be easily extended. I already mentioned embedding David> in GTK or QT widgets. Another area for improvement would be David> libreadline and libhistory linking, which would vastly improve David> the cli. And it would be very inconvenient to rewrite several David> years of plotting scripts if gnuplot eventually dies. Hello, what version do you use? libreadline and libhistory are both used at least with UN*X and L*NUX. But you have to write the '~/.inputrc' yourself if you use L*NUX from RedHat or SuSe. Other systems I donn't know. Bye Thomas -- Platzangst: Der dauerhafte Zustand eines Luftballons. ---------------------------------------------- Dipl. Phys. Thomas Walter Inst. f. Physiklische Chemie II Egerlandstr. 3 Tel.: ++9131-85 27326 / 27330 91058 Erlangen, Germany email: walter at pctc dot chemie dot uni-erlangen dot de --------------------------------------------------------------------- Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. To ensure that development continues, see www.che.wisc.edu/octave/giftform.html Instructions for unsubscribing: www.che.wisc.edu/octave/archive.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------