Gnuplot Basics Gnuplot Basics Description Gnuplot is an interactive command-driven plotting package capable of producing line graphs, parametric plots, contour plots and surface plots.
Additional options allow polar plots, log axes, error bars and control over labeling.
Plots may be displayed on dumb terminals, in X windows or saved as PostScript. Output images are not of the highest quality. Using Gnuplot Gnuplot is a very versatile package, but in order to use it you must learn its command-line syntax. Use the online help facilities and the manuals we have to help you and experiment with producing different plots. There are vast online help facilities for Gnuplot.