diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 26a2ba5c9..c42ac33ec 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 2009-12-31 Holger Vogt
- * measure.c, resource.c, mesaload.c: small updates by R. Larice
+ * measure.c, resource.c, mesaload.c: small patches by R. Larice
+   graf.c, plotit.c: gnuplot updates, point chars updated
 
 2009-12-30 Holger Vogt
  * gnuplot.c: some additions
diff --git a/src/frontend/plotting/graf.c b/src/frontend/plotting/graf.c
index 4ce3d2358..914dfa773 100644
--- a/src/frontend/plotting/graf.c
+++ b/src/frontend/plotting/graf.c
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ static int curlst = 0;          /* for assigning line styles */
 
 /* These are what gets plotted as points when you specify point plots */
 static char pointchars[128];
-#define DEFPOINTCHARS   "oxabcdefhgijklmnpqrstuvwyz"
+#define DEFPOINTCHARS   "ox+#*abcdefhgijklmnpqrstuvwyz"
 
 /* Buffer for ticmarks if given a list */
 static char ticbuf[1024];
diff --git a/src/frontend/plotting/plotit.c b/src/frontend/plotting/plotit.c
index 784269c31..47d24791c 100644
--- a/src/frontend/plotting/plotit.c
+++ b/src/frontend/plotting/plotit.c
@@ -1007,7 +1007,7 @@ plotit(wordlist *wl, char *hcopy, char *devname)
 #endif
 
    if (devname && eq(devname, "gnuplot")) {
-	/* Interface to XGraph-11 Plot Program */
+	/* Interface to Gnuplot Plot Program */
 	ft_gnuplot(xlims, ylims, hcopy,
 	    title ? title : vecs->v_plot->pl_title,
 	    xlabel ? xlabel : ft_typabbrev(vecs->v_scale->v_type),