GNUPLOT is a command-driven interactive function plotting program. It
is case sensitive (commands and function names written in lowercase
are not the same as those written in CAPS). All command names may be
abbreviated, as long as the abbreviation is not ambiguous. Any number
of commands may appear on a line, separated by semicolons (;).
Any command-line arguments are assumed to be names of files containing
gnuplot commands. Each file is loaded with the load command, in the
order specified. Gnuplot exits after the last file is processed.
Commands may extend over several input lines, by ending each line but
the last with a backslash (
\). The backslash must be the LAST
character on each line. The effect is as if the backslash and newline
were not there. That is, no white space is implied, nor is a comment
terminated. Therefore, commenting out a continued line comments out
the entire command (see comment).
In this documentation, curly braces ({}) denote optional arguments to
many commands.
For help on any topic, type 'help' followed by the name of the topic.