On 12 Aug 2009, at 02:55, Ron Johnson wrote:
trend is a general-purpose, efficient trend graph for "live" data. Datais read in ASCII form from a file or continuously from a FIFO and displayed in real-time into a multi-pass trend (much like a CRT oscilloscope). trend can be used as a rapid analysis tool forprogressive or time-based data series together with trivial scripting."trend", though, is such a *generic* term.
Well, I cannot argue with that, but it doesn't seem to conflict with anything I'm aware of (that includes non packaged software since at least 2004).
A package has been included in Scientific Linux 4 with the same name. I honestly don't know what to do about this.