passing strings to GNUplot

[David D. Clark]

Is there a way to pass a file name stored as a string to the gnuplot
command "output"

pfile="data.ps"
gset output pfile

this results in the error:

octave> pfile="data.ps"
octave> gset output pfile
octave> 
gnuplot> set output pfile 
                    ^
         line 0: expecting filename

any help would be appreciated

Dave

David D. Clark
Graduate Research Assistant, Biophysics Group, P-21
MS D454
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos, NM 87545
Phone (505)667-4147 Fax (505)665-4507