gnuplot-beta

Simple question

[Daniel J S. <dan...@ie...>]

This works:

gnuplot> system "date"; plot x; system "date"
Wed May 30 01:47:09 CDT 2007
Wed May 30 01:47:09 CDT 2007

Why not this?

gnuplot> system "date"; load 'mixture.gp'; system "date"
Wed May 30 01:48:13 CDT 2007
                                            ^
          warning: ignoring rest of line

Simple answer?

Re: Simple question

[Juergen W. <wie...@fr...>]

> gnuplot> system "date"; load 'mixture.gp'; system "date"
> Wed May 30 01:48:13 CDT 2007
>                                             ^
>           warning: ignoring rest of line
>
> Simple answer?

The load command discards the complete buffer of the current command
line to process the first line of the load file.  After the file has
been processed, the rest of the original line is not restored
because noone has bothered to implement this.

Juergen