The 
issues with M4 have been resolved.  A colleague, Andre Lucas, took up the challenge and worked out a fix which he 
describes in detail.  And 
ministat's now looking much better.  It's grown some useful new options, a lot of documentation, and can now (optionally) generate plots in colour.  Look below the fold for two example plots.
Here's the first plot, demonstrating three datasets and ANSI colours.
![[ministat plot]](http://people.freebsd.org/~nik/ministat.png)
Here's the second plot, with the same data, and the 
--symbols option to change the symbols that are plotted for each data point.
 
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