This is a binary distribution of gnuplot version 4.5 (cvs), 
compiled for 386+ MSDOS systems with DJGPP V2.03, gcc-4.5.3. 
It is meant to workboth in 'naked' DOS, and in the DOS-boxes of 
multitasking systems like M$ Windows, Linux or OS/2.


For general installation instructions, please see the file INSTALL, in
particular the section regarding environment variables to be set in
MSDOS, like 'GNUHELP' variables. But for a quick start, 
just unpack everything into a single directory, change into that directory
and then start the program gnuplot.exe. That should be it, already.

Files in here:
README.dj2			this file
README				general description of gnuplot
bin/gnuplot.exe			the actual program
bin/gnuplot.gih			online help needed by gnuplot.exe
NEWS				List of changes in this version
Copyright			The License statement
BUGS				known bugs and problems
FAQ				Frequently Asked Questions (and answers)
PGPKEYS				public keys used for signing gnuplot releases
bin/CWSDPMI.DOC 
bin/CWSDPMI.EXE			DPMI server for running this on raw DOS
bin/share/PostScript/*.ps	postscript prologue files
bin/share/PostScript/README	README for postscript prologue files
bin/share/PostScript/aglfn.txt	Document for Adobe Glyph List For New Fonts
bin/share/js/*.js		javascript files for canvas terminal
bin/share/js/gnuplot_mouse.css	A css file for canvas terminal for mouse operation
bin/share/js/*.png		png files for canvas terminal
bin/share/js/README		Notes on using the gnuplot canvas terminal driver to create web pages
bin/share/lua/gptikz.lua	execution script for the `Lua generic terminal' driver
bin/share/lua/NEWS		News for lua/tikz terminal
bin/share/lua/README		README for lua/tikz terminal
bin/share/lua/TODO		TODO for lua/tikz terminal
bin/share/LaTeX/gnuplot.cfg	configuration file for the epslatex terminal
bin/share/LaTeX/gnuplot-lua-tikz.sty	LaTeX wrapper for gnuplot-tikz style file
bin/share/LaTeX/gnuplot-lua-tikz.tex	plain TeX wrapper for gnuplot-tikz style file
bin/share/LaTeX/gnuplot-lua-tikz-common.tex	Common style file for TeX, LaTeX and ConTeXt
bin/share/LaTeX/README		README for various TeX-based terminal types
bin/share/LaTeX/t-gnuplot-lua-tikz.tex	ConTeXt wrapper for gnuplot-tikz style file
demo/				A directory full of gnuplot demo files
bin/share/texmf/tex/(directoties and files)	TeX related files

Note that the documentation can also be obtained in various other
formats from the main gnuplot distribution servers as given in README.


DPMI for DOS
------------

The enclosed program CWSDPMI.EXE is needed for operation in 'naked'
DOS, to ensure DPMI services are available. If you only use this
program in a 'DOS box' inside something like MS Windows, you don't
really need it.


GRX Graphics
------------

The notes below were written for gnuplot 4.0. When testing the compiled
version of 4.4, I haven't set any environmental variable and gnuplot
works correctly as well.

For the full fun, you may want to set some environment variables to
steer the GRX graphics library used in this build. Most of the details
of this procedure are described only in the documentation of GRX,
though, so you should look them up there. For reference, here's what I
usually set it to, and what that means:

  set GRX20DRV=VESA gw 1024 gh 768 nc 256

This selects the builtin driver using VESA BIOS Extensions (VBE, for
short), at a graphics width (gw) of 1024, and a height (gh) of 768
pixels, with 256 colors (nc). Shouldn't be too hard to guess how
change this, if needed. The 'VESA' driver should generally work out of
the box with just about any at least remotely up-to-date graphics
card.

Unlike GRX20DRV, GRXFONT is only really useful if you have installed
the GRX library on your system already, so there's not much point in
setting it if you don't already know what it does ...


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The gnuplot team
March, 2012

