Re: Send bug reports and ...

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Tuesday 22 September 2009, Petr Mikulik wrote:
> Nowadays, the message on gnuplot's start-up:
> 
>   Send bug reports and suggestions to <http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuplot>
> 
> does no longer fit to 80 characters making it strange looking on many 
> terminals. Thus, it should be changed. The following messages would fit into 
> 80 characters:
> 
> 1. 
>   The gnuplot FAQ is available from http://www.gnuplot.info/faq/
>   ...
>   Report bugs and suggestions to http://sf.net/projects/gnuplot
> 
> 2.
>   The gnuplot FAQ is available from www.gnuplot.info/faq/
>   ...
>   Report bugs and suggestions to www.sourceforge.net/projects/gnuplot
> 
> 
> I would vote for 2.
> Any ideas?

I have simplified the start message further. Is it OK?

stonelion [132] ./gnuplot

        G N U P L O T
        Version 4.3 patchlevel CVS-06Oct2009
        last modified Tue Oct  6 20:44:40 PDT 2009
        System: Linux 2.6.29.6-desktop-1mnb

        Copyright (C) 1986-1993, 1998, 2004, 2007-2009
        Thomas Williams, Colin Kelley, and many others

        immediate help:  type "help"
        gnuplot FAQ:     http://www.gnuplot.info/faq/
        report bugs:     http://sf.net/projects/gnuplot/support

Terminal type set to 'wxt'
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