Re: gnuplot plot string

[Thomas Walter]

>>>>> "Douglas" == Douglas Steele <address@hidden> writes:

    Douglas> Hi
    Douglas> GNU Octave, version 2.0.16, Win2K, Cygnus v1.0
    Douglas> G N U P L O T    MS-Windows 32 bit version 3.7
    Douglas> pgnuplot.c -pipe stdin to wgnuplot Version 0.3

    Douglas> configure, make and make install works fine

    Douglas> However there is problem with the plot command string issued by 
Octave

    gnuplot> set data style lines
    gnuplot> pl "C:ŠÜCygwinŠÜ/tmp/oct-6106b22d.0" t "line 1"
    Douglas>             ^
    Douglas>          can't read data file "C:Cygwin/tmp/oct-6106b22d.0"
    Douglas>          (No such file or directory)

    Douglas> But for example the following works fine...

    gnuplot> pl "C:ŠÜŠÜCygwinŠÜ/tmp/oct-6106b22d.0" t "line 1"
    Douglas> or
    gnuplot> pl "C:/ŠÜCygwinŠÜ/tmp/oct-6106b22d.0" t "line 1"            

    Douglas> Any idea how I can change the issued string or its interpretation ?
    Douglas> (I have looked though Octave code but couldn't find the c:ŠÜ 
issueing
    Douglas> part, similarly no luck with gnuplot)

    Douglas> Thanks for any help.

    Douglas> -- 
    Douglas> Douglas Steele

Hello,
I removed my Windows long ago, but I programmed a lot using emacs,
bash, ...
You have to use '/' in _all_ paths if you use UN*X based programs.  If
you really want to use a backslash in paths then you _must_ double it
like 'ŠÜŠÜ' because a single backslash is an escape character to
read/write the next character as is.
==>  ŠÜC  expands to C
     ŠÜŠÜ  expands to ŠÜ
==> Use:
    pl "C:/Cygwin/tmp/oct-1234"
Read the doc of 'bash' and you get more hints.  And the doc of
gnuplot, it uses '/' as path-delimiter too.

Bye
Thomas

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