Re: [Gnuplot-py-users] Weird Window crashes when using Gnuplot via Python

[Benny M. <ben...@gm...>]

2010/3/12 Rajan Gurjar <rjn...@gm...>:
> Thanks Benny,
> I think I tried it already and if I recollect it did not work, but I will
> try again when I get home (I have been at it for the last two weeks
> endlessly booting my computer million times  by now).
> However, I have dug out a Win ME at work and followed the same install
> procedures as I did at home on my Win ME or on my Win XP. And everything ran
> perfectly well. I could run the test.py without any problems. In fact I used
> older versions of python 2.4 and gnuplot 4.2.
> This suggests something wrong with my Window ME installation? I am going to
> try and do a system restore to an earlier date.  I recently downloaded
> "registry patrol" software from a vendor and it may have blocked certain
> applications while cleaning my registry.
>
> I notice that I cannot see the .gih file in gnuplot\bin. Also when I click
> on the gnuplot.hlp file I get a message (I cannot recall exactly and so I am
> giving a distorted version here -sorry about that) : Cannot open it because
> the file cannot be found or being used. It may have been renamed....
> I however, see all these files at my office WinME and can open the hlp
> files. Isn't the .gih file used during a gnuplot run? So I am happy that
> this is not a real bug for WinME in general but some nasty occurrence in my
> machine. Would you have any suggestions?

No. I stopped with windows after Win95. It seems like disk or OS
problem on your machine.
I'd say reinstall gnuplot and Gnuplot.py

Benny