On Tue, 26 Oct 2010 23:43:22 -0700, pyotr filipivich wrote:
"DoN. Nichols" on 27 Oct 2010 03:50:44 GMT wrote
:...
Did you also look at gnuplot which I mentioned earlier? I did
warn that it was not simple -- but was free, and *very* powerful. :-)

And I *know* that I can get gnuplot to plot from a table of
numbers. Here is an example which I regularly use (in the form of a
script in unix format):

That there is the first problem I'm having with gnuplot - getting
it into a working unit under windows. I've let all the computer nerd
stuff I use to have slide, so I'm now with a very "vanilla" system.
(Whine, whine, whine)

Okay sniveling aside. I downloaded
gnuplot-4.3.0-2009-07-08.tar.gz and opened it up into its very own
subdirectory - "Gnuplot" But I find nothing which I recognize as an
application. Okay, buildvms.com and make_vms.com - but while I recognize
them [...]

gnuplot-4.3.0-2009-07-08.tar.gz probably is source files that need to
be compiled to create runnable programs. Instead of trying to do
that, go to http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuplot/files/ and
click on the gp442win32.zip link, to get binary files already
compiled specifically for MS Windows. When you unzip the
file, a lot of .dll and .exe files will appear in the binary/
subdirectory. Read the file README.Windows for binary
Installation directions. (File INSTALL, which tells how to compile
from sources, has an MS Windows section about halfway thru,
but installing binaries is simpler than compiling sources.)

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jiw