How do you plot bar charts in gnuplot?

Question

How do you plot bar charts in gnuplot with text labels?

(Sorry - I'm answering my own question here - as it suggest in the first entry of the faq)

Answer 1

plot "data.dat" using 2: xtic(1) using histogram

Here data.dat contains data of the form

title 1
title2 3
"long title" 5

Answer 2

The line should read

plot "data.dat" using 2: xtic(1) with histogram

Besides that: Thank you for the answer!