Re: Announcement, first draft

[Lars H. <lhe...@us...>]

 
>  DISTRIBUTION SITES
>  ==================
 
 CTAN is missing. They, and presumably the French and Australian mirrors, too,
 are mirroring from ftp.ucc.ie/pub/gnuplot (--> my job to update that).

>   OTHER:
>   
>        Source and binary distributions for the Amiga will be available
>        on Aminet http://ftp.wustl.edu/~aminet/ and its mirrors as
>        gfx/misc/gnuplot-4.0.0bin.lha
>        gfx/misc/gnuplot-4.0.0doc.lha
>        gfx/misc/gnuplot-4.0.0src.lha
   
 Not sure I'll be able to create these. I think I have never ever tried
 to compile the 3.8 branch on the Amiga.

>  THE CONTRIB SECTION
>  ===================
> 
>  An improved gnuplot mode for X/Emacs by Bruce Ravel is available from
>  http://feff.phys.washington.edu/~ravel/software/gnuplot-mode/Welcome.html.
>  It has already been added to the development version of gnuplot.
 
 It is now part of gnuplot.

>  The gnuplot team would like to thank all who have contributed to this
>  release through discussions, suggestions, bug reports, and patches,
>  on Usenet and mailing lists.  Special thanks go to Juergen von Hagen
>  who maintained the gnuplot FAQ for q while.  To Ethan Merritt and

 s/q/a/

>  Petr Mikulik for lots of work all over the place, and to Johannes
>  Zellner for the original mouse support.
>  
>                                         -Thomas Williams-
>                                         -Lars Hecking-
> 					-Hans-Bernhard Broeker-
> 
>  FOOTNOTES
>  =========
> 
>  [1] The gif terminal driver requires third party software. Because the
>      version of gd library currently at http://www.boutell.com/gd/ does
>      NOT create gif images, we are providing gd library version 1.3 and 1.4
>      at from the gnuplot distribution sites.
 
 Should we really supply them, or should we stop that?

>  [2] the png terminal driver requires third party software. The png graphics
>      library and zlib can be downloaded from
>      http://www.cdrom.com/pub/png/pngcode.html
>      and
>      http://www.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/zlib/
>      respectively. They are also available from the gnuplot distribution
>      sites.

 The URLs are changed now, I think.

 http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html
 http://www.gzip.org/zlib/