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-Gnuplot is a command-driven interactive function plotting program.
+Gnuplot is a portable multi-platform command-line driven graphing utility. It
+was originally created to allow scientists and students to visualize
+mathematical functions and data interactively, but has grown to support many
+non-interactive uses such as web scripting. It is also used as a plotting engine
+by third-party applications like Octave. Gnuplot has been supported and under
+active development since 1986.
 
-Plots any number of functions, built up of C operators, C library
-functions, and some things C doesn't have like **, sgn(), etc.  Also
-support for plotting data files, to compare actual data to
-theoretical curves.
-
-User-defined X and Y ranges (optional auto-ranging), smart axes
-scaling, smart tic marks.
-
-Labelling of X and Y axes.
-
-User-defined constants and functions.
-
-Support through a generalized graphics driver for AED 512, AED 767,
-BBN BitGraph, Commodore Amiga, Roland DXY800A, EEPIC, TeXDraw, EmTeX,
-Epson 60dpi printers, Epson LX-800, Fig, HP2623, HP2648, HP75xx, HPGL,
-HP LaserJet II, Imagen, Iris 4D, MS-DOS Kermit, Kyocera laser printer,
-LaTeX, NEC CP6 pinwriter, PostScript, QMS QUIC, ReGis (VT125 and
-VT2xx), SCO Xenix CGI, Selanar, Star color printer, Tandy DMP-130
-printer, Tek 401x, Tek 410x, Vectrix 384, VT like Tektronix emulator,
-Unix PC (ATT 3b1 or ATT 7300), unixplot, and X11.  The PC version
-compiled by Microsoft C supports IBM CGA, EGA, VGA, Hercules, ATT
-6300, and Corona 325 graphics.  The PC version compiled by Borland C++
-sup- ports IBM CGA, EGA, MCGA, VGA, Hercules and ATT 6300 graphics.
-Other devices can be added simply, but will require recompiling.
-
-Shell escapes and command line substitution.
-
-Output redirection.
+Gnuplot supports many types of plots in either 2D or 3D. It can draw using
+lines, points, boxes, contours, vector fields, surfaces, and various associated
+text. It also supports various specialized plot types. Gnuplot supports many
+different types of output: interactive screen terminals (with mouse and hotkey
+input), direct output to pen plotters or modern printers, and output to many
+file formats (eps, emf, fig, jpeg, LaTeX, pdf, png, postscript, ...). Gnuplot is
+easily extensible to include new output modes. Recent additions include
+interactive terminals based on wxWidgets (usable on multiple platforms), and Qt.
+Mouseable plots embedded in web pages can be generated using the svg or HTML5
+canvas terminal drivers.
 
 WWW: http://www.gnuplot.info/