diff --git a/program/examples/bigtops.pl.in b/program/examples/bigtops.pl.in
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+#! @PERL@
+# this is for after install
+use lib qw( @prefix@/lib/perl );
+
+use RRDs;
+my $start=time;
+my $rrd="randome.rrd";
+my $name = $0;
+$name =~ s/.*\///g;
+$name =~ s/\.pl.*//g;
+
+RRDs::create ($rrd, "--start",$start-1, "--step",300,
+ "DS:a:GAUGE:600:U:U",
+ "DS:b:GAUGE:600:U:U",
+ "RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:1:300");
+my $ERROR = RRDs::error;
+die "$0: unable to create `$rrd': $ERROR\n" if $ERROR;
+
+# dropt some data into the rrd
+my $t;
+for ($t=$start; $t<$start+300*300; $t+=300){
+ RRDs::update $rrd, "$t:".rand(100).":".(sin($t/800)*50+50);
+ if ($ERROR = RRDs::error) {
+ die "$0: unable to update `$rrd': $ERROR\n";
+ }
+}
+
+RRDs::graph "$name.png",
+ "--title", uc($name)." Demo",
+ "--start", "$start + 1 h",
+ "--end", "start + 1000 min",
+ "--interlace",
+ "--imgformat","PNG",
+ "--width=450",
+ "DEF:a=$rrd:a:AVERAGE",
+ "DEF:b=$rrd:b:AVERAGE",
+ "CDEF:line=TIME,2400,%,300,LT,a,UNKN,IF",
+ "AREA:b#00b6e4:beta",
+ "AREA:line#0022e9:alpha",
+ "LINE3:line#ff0000",
+
+;
+
+if ($ERROR = RRDs::error) {
+ die "ERROR: $ERROR\n";
+};
+
+
+print "This script has created $name.png in the current directory\n";
+print "This demonstrates the use of the TIME and % RPN operators\n";