Making demo programs more evident...

[Daniel J S. <dan...@ie...>]

It may be nice to make more apparent the existence of the demo programs. 
 The demos are on the web page now, which is great.  However, I'm 
thinking from the perspective of a new user like a student in an 
academic environment.  The demos are an eye-opener when it comes to the 
initially arcane command line interface, yet I think a new user who 
doesn't have super user privilege may never realize there are some nice 
demos that would really help in the learning curve.  Maybe a "help demo" 
or "help demos" would be nice to explain how to access the scripts.

Here is the thing.  If I have su privilege I can just change to the 
"demo" directory, run "gnuplot", type "load 'all.dem'" and away we go. 
 But someone who hasn't installed the program, but rather just logs into 
an account and types "gnuplot" will not know where to go for the demos. 
 Neither will he or she be able to run the complete set of demos if, in 
fact, they are found... unless they are smart enough to copy the demos 
to their own account.  If a person without su privilege goes to the 
directory where the demos are and loads them, at least one demo requires 
the creation of a file, which will bomb because the user doesn't have 
privilege to create a file in that directory.

Dan