Re: [Gnuplot-py-users] Windows and inline

[Michael H. <mh...@al...>]

Noel O'Boyle wrote:
> Please find attached an example program with extensive commenting
> describing its behaviour. (I use WinXP on a 256MB old Dell laptop)
> 
> Noel
> 
> On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 21:29 +0100, Michael Haggerty wrote:
> 
>>Noel O'Boyle wrote:
>>
>>>In order to avoid the use of temporary files, I have tried to pass data
>>>to gnuplot using the inline option in WinXP. This works fine for small
>>>amounts of data but for larger amounts, the complete amount of data is
>>>not passed.
>>>
>>>For example, I tried to send data for 500 hundred (x,y) data points, but
>>>only 355 lines were sent to gnuplot. It was possible to see this at the
>>>interactive gnuplot prompt, and actually to plot the 355 data points by
>>>entering 'e' (for "end" - part of gnuplot's inline data passing
>>>mechanism, I suppose).
>>>
>>>Is this a known feature of Windows/gnuplot-py/gnuplot? I wasn't sure how
>>>to track down this bug - I can send you an example program that
>>>reproduces this problem if you want.
>>
>>I am not familiar with this problem.  It would help if you could send an
>>example program.  At the least, I could try it under Linux to see if the
>>same problem occurs there.

Your test script runs without any problems on my Linux computer.  It
certainly seems like some kind of buffer limitation problem, probably
specific to Windows.  Since I don't use windows, I can't help you (maybe
some other Windows/Gnuplot.py user can help.

Michael