Can gnuplot transparently open compressed data files to save storage space?

Question

I have gigabytes of data that would be nice to compress with gzip for storage. Can gnuplot open compressed files? If it can't, is there a way to pipe the data to gnuplot so that the uncompressed file doesn't need to be written to disk?

Answer 1

Something like plot "< gzip -dc compressed.gz", IIRC.