IMPORTANT NOTE FOR GIF SUPPORT
 ==============================

 Gnuplot requires the gd library from http://www.boutell.com/gd/ to
 create gif output. Note that the use of this code may subject your
 organisation to a charge of willful patent infringement (as stated
 by UNISYS) unless you are in possession of a UNISYS license.

 The UNISYS patent covers the LZW technology which is used to create
 gifs.  To our knowledge, only gd library version 1.3 and 1.4 are free
 of LZW code and should therefore be used with gnuplot (unless you have
 a license from Unisys to use LZW code, in which case version 1.2 and 1.5
 is fine, too).  The binaries provided here have been built with version
 1.3.  Version 1.6+ cannot be used because support for GIF has been
 removed altogether.

 The Gnuplot Plotting Utility
 ============================

 This directory contains the source and binary distribution for
 gnuplot, the interactive plotting utility. To learn more
 about gnuplot, check out the following URLs.

<URL:http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/gnuplot_info.html>
<URL:http://members.theglobe.com/gnuplot/>
<URL:http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Foothills/6647/>
<URL:http://www.comnets.rwth-aachen.de/doc/gnu/gnuplot37/gnuplot.html>
<URL:http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/gnuplot/gplot_toc.html>
<URL:http://www.usf.uni-osnabrueck.de/~breiter/tools/gnuplot/index.en.html>
<URL:http://users.ece.gatech.edu/~schooley/gnuplot.html> (Macintosh)
<URL:http://web.math-cs.uni.edu/cs/Help/gnuplot/TOC.html>
<URL:http://mucha.obspm.fr/~grouss/gnuplt/gnuplot.html> (in french)
<URL:http://www.guilde.asso.fr/guilde/groupes/education/compilation/tr-gnuplot.html> (more french)
<URL:http://brian.me.tufts.edu/GnuplotInLaTeX/> (gnuplot and LaTeX)
<URL:http://www.eso.org/~ndevilla/gnuplot/> (gnuplot API in ANSI C)
<URL:http://www.al.lu/euler/gnuplot.shtml> (a gnuplot link site in french)
<URL:http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/qplot/> (Plot quarterly time data)
<URL:http://monsoon.harvard.edu/~mhagger/download> (gnuplot and Python)
<URL:ftp://ftp.thewrittenword.com:/free/by-package/> (Solaris, IRIX, HP-UX and Digital Unix binaries)
<URL:http://homepage1.nifty.com/tomabe/cygwin/gpclient/index.html>

 Contents of this directory
 ==========================

 The binary archives generally come with platform specific documentation.
 Some include even the demo files. All source and binary archives, except
 those in the contrib directory, have been signed with PGP.

ANNOUNCEMENT
    The announcement which was posted to various Usenet groups and
    mailing lists.

DISTRIBUTION
    A list of gnuplot distribution sites.

MD5SUMS
    A file containing the md5 checksums for the distrbution files.

PGPKEYS
    The public keys which have been used to sign all archives.

README
    This file

Y2K
    Some notes about gnuplot and Year 2000 compliance.

contrib/
    Contributed software, which is not supported by the gnuplot team.
    See contrib/README for details.

faq/
    An up to date copy of the gnuplot FAQ in html, tex, and text
    format.

gnuplot-3.7.3.tar.gz     Size: 1.4MB
gnuplot-3.7.3.tar.gz.asc
    The source archive for gnuplot 3.7.3, plus signature.

gnuplot-3.7.2-3.7.3.diff.gz         Size: 82k
gnuplot-3.7.2-3.7.3.diff.gz.asc
    Diffs to the previous version of gnuplot, 3.7.2, plus signature.

gnuplot-3.7.1-3.7.3.diff.gz         Size: 267k
gnuplot-3.7.1-3.7.3.diff.gz.asc
    Diffs to gnuplot 3.7.1, plus signature.

gnuplot-mode.0.6.0.tar.gz      Size: 300k
gnuplot-mode..0.6.0tar.gz.asc
     A new version of gnuplot-mode for Emacs and XEmacs,
     written by Bruce Ravel <ravel@phys.washington.edu>.
     See the web page at http://feff.phys.washington.edu/~ravel/software/gnuplot-mode/
     NOTE: This is already in cvs for the development version, which will
     become gnuplot 4.0 at some stage.

gp373dj2.zip            Size: 612k
gp373dj2.zip.asc
    32-bit DOS version, compiled with DJGPP, plus signature.
    This version includes GIF and PNG support.
    Contributed by H.-B. Broeker.

gp373dos.zip            Size: 460k
gp373dos.zip.asc
    16-bit DOS version, compiled with BC3.1, plus signature.
    No GIF and PNG support. Contributed by H.-B. Broeker.

gp373w16.zip            Size: 787K
gp373w16.zip.asc
    Binary archive for Win16 platforms (Win3.1, WfW 3.11), plus signature.
    No support for GIF and PNG. Contributed by H.-B. Broeker.

gp373w32.zip            Size: 642k
gp373w32.zip.asc
    Binary archive for Win32 platforms, plus signature. Support for GIF
    and PNG. Contributed by H.-B. Broeker.

gpdoc.zip              Size: 910k
gpdoc.zip.asc
    The gnuplot documentation in different formats, like html and ps.
    The info and html files were created from the .texi file included
    with the source distribution.

gpdoc2.zip             Size: 407k
gpdoc2.zip.asc
    The missing documentation/help formats (hlp ipf ms nroff rnh).

gnuplot.pdf.gz         Size: 381k
gnuplot.pdf.gz.asc
gpcard.pdf.gz          Size: 80
gpcard.pdf.gz.asc
    Documentation in pdf format, created with pdftex and pdflatex.
    Note that gpcard is not current.

gd1.3.tar.gz                 Size:  88kB
gd1.4.tar.gz                 Size:  97kB
libpng-1.2.5.tar.gz          Size: 494kB
zlib-1.1.4.tar.gz            Size: 177kB
    2rd party graphics libraries required to build gif and png support
    into gnuplot.
    The latest version of the png library is available from
    http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/.
    The latest version of the z library is available from
    http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/zlib/.
    gd library is available from http://www.boutell.com/gd/. The two
    versions here are free of Unisys patented code and create gif
    images. The currently available version from www.boutell.com does
    NOT create gifs.

patches
    Directory where patches to the released version will be available.

testing
    Directory where random code will be available to beta testers.


 Other platforms
 ===============

 A binary distribution for Amiga (m68k) will shortly be available
 on Aminet <URL:http://ftp.wustl.edu/~aminet/>. The status of the
 Macintosh version is unknown at this time.
 Contributions for other platforms, especially Amiga/PPC, are welcome,
 and volunteers should contact me at the email address below. This email
 is for distribution/administration purposes only, *not* for user problems!

Lars Hecking

Cork, Ireland, December 2002