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1.1     ! maekawa     1: The modifications to gnuplot 3.2 in this directory add the
        !             2: capability of plotting probability distributions.
        !             3:
        !             4: This mod adds the following extra standard gnuplot functions:
        !             5:
        !             6: ibeta   - incomplete beta function
        !             7: igamma  - incomplete gamma function
        !             8: lgamma  - natural log of gamma
        !             9: gamma   - gamma function
        !            10: erf     - error function (= trivial variation of infamous bell curve)
        !            11: erfc    - 1.0 - error function (more accurate than 1.0 - erf yourself)
        !            12: rand    - pseudo random number generator (in compliance with Knuth)
        !            13:
        !            14: using these things as building blocks, a gnuplot command file 'stat.inc'
        !            15: is provided with definitions of almost all statistical distributions.
        !            16:
        !            17: Author: Jos van der Woude, jvdwoude@hut.nl
        !            18:
        !            19: ==========================================================
        !            20: Directions to install gnuplot 3.3:
        !            21: (diffs are relative to gnuplot 3.0, patchlevel 2.0)
        !            22:
        !            23: If you have a BSD machine, add the following to
        !            24: the makefile.unx:
        !            25:
        !            26: OPTIONS = -DERF -DGAMMA
        !            27:
        !            28: and specfun.c to the SOURCES and specfun.o to the OBJECTS.
        !            29:
        !            30: For MSDOS machines (and non-BSD machines) do the following:
        !            31:
        !            32: ASSUMPTIONS:
        !            33: The diffs provided work for msdos based pc's, using turbo C, version 2.0,
        !            34: and Borland C++, version 2.0 or 3.0.
        !            35: If you use a different setup, you might have to make (some) changes.
        !            36:
        !            37: GOAL:
        !            38: To extend the standard function library of gnuplot 3.2 with the following
        !            39: functions:
        !            40:
        !            41: ibeta    - incomplete beta function
        !            42: igamma   - incomplete gamma function
        !            43: erf()    - error function (= trivial variation of normal distribution function)
        !            44: erfc()   - 1.0 - erf() (more accurate than computing 1.0 - erf() yourself)
        !            45: gamma()  - gamma function (for entire domain!)
        !            46: lgamma() - natural logarithm of gamma function
        !            47: rand()   - a statistical acceptable version of standard C rand() function
        !            48:
        !            49: These additions to the repertoire of standard functions turn gnuplot into
        !            50: an excellent tool for plotting statistical density and distribution functions.
        !            51:
        !            52: DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS:
        !            53: 0. Split the bottom part of this file into the appropriate files:
        !            54:    readme.p3, patch3.dif, stat.inc, nomo95.dem, random.dem, prob.dem,
        !            55:    prob2.dem, and specfun.c using an editor or a PD PC shar utility.
        !            56:
        !            57: 1. Use the patch program to generate new versions of:
        !            58:    gnuplot.doc, command.c, internal.c, misc.c, parse.c, plot.c, plot.h,
        !            59:    standard.c, util.c and version.c
        !            60:
        !            61: 2. Make sure that file specfun.c is in the gnuplot directory.
        !            62:
        !            63: 3. Use the make program to create new version of gnuplot.
        !            64:
        !            65: 4. Test the new functions with commmand files prob.dem, prob2.dem,
        !            66:    random.dem and nomo95.dem.
        !            67:
        !            68: KNOWN BUG:
        !            69: On MSDOS machines this modification can result in a DGROUP segment overflow
        !            70: error at link time. The reason is that gnuplot uses the resources of the
        !            71: large memory model right up to the limit.
        !            72: There are two things you can do about this:
        !            73:
        !            74: 1. Compile gnuplot using the huge memory model.
        !            75:    This was tested using Borland C++, version 2.0: Works fine, even with
        !            76:    -DREADLINE enabled.
        !            77:
        !            78: 2. If you dont want to compile under the huge memory model you can try to
        !            79:    disable unused terminal drivers in term.h. See instructions at top
        !            80:    of file term.h.
        !            81:
        !            82:
        !            83: Happy plotting,
        !            84:
        !            85: Jos van der Woude
        !            86: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
        !            87: jvdwoude@hut.nl