Re: ruby/gnuplot on windows

Ruby
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Dear Jon,

I tried what I wrote to you yesterday on Cygwin/Windows and it worked
there.
Now, I have tried

gnuplot -persist g.plt´

where g.plt is a file containing just the line

plot sin(x)

and this works - without the persist, the plot disappears
instantaneously, as
you mentioned.

Cygwin is a free, open-source attempt to make Unix run on Windows XP –
I have been using it for several years now along with various Linuxes

most of the time things work, sometimes it drives me crazy, but by far
not
as much as Windows does. You can get it here:

_http://www.cygwin.com/_ (http://www.cygwin.com/) .

Of course, Ruby will run on it. But I don’t know whether they have the
newest version available as a binary. I installed Ruby by downloading
the
tar-file from
Ruby’s website, decompressed it
using

gunzip ruby*.zip
tar xvf rubytar
cd ruby
./configure
make
make install

  • so just the usual procedure…

Best regards,

Axel

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unknown wrote:

Dear Jon,

I tried what I wrote to you yesterday on Cygwin/Windows and it worked
there.
Now, I have tried

gnuplot -persist g.plt´

Axel,

I have always used windows and am not very familiar with Unix. How much
of a learning curve would there be to use cygwin? Gnuplot is supposed
to work with windows and most of it does. For some reason, I just can’t
get a window to stay open. What is strange is that the pause command
doesn’t work either, but all the other commands like plot etc…work.
I’ll give cygwin a try, but that might be more difficult for me than
figuring out the original problem. Thanks for taking the time to help
me with this problem. I really appreciate it.

Jon