gnuplot-beta

Windows binary package for testing

[Bastian M. <bma...@we...>]

Dear gnuplotters,

A testing release of the Windows 64bit binary distribution of the upcoming release 5.2.2 is now available at 
https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuplot/files/gnuplot/testing/

This is the first release package build on a new machine, so please give it some testing.  Feedback much appreciated.


  Bastian

Re: Windows binary package for testing, "help" command

[Tait <gnu...@t4...>]

Do you think you could upload it as a zip?

Maybe this is a known issue, but the help commands don't
seem to work. Normally "help set xtics" would pull up the
help on xtics. It just seems to pull up a blank page now.


"\"Bastian Märkisch\"" <bma...@we...> said (on 2017/11/08):
> Dear gnuplotters,
> 
> A testing release of the Windows 64bit binary distribution of the upcoming release 5.2.2 is now available at 
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuplot/files/gnuplot/testing/
> 
> This is the first release package build on a new machine, so please give it some testing.  Feedback much appreciated.
> 
> 
>   Bastian
> 
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Re: Windows binary package for testing, "help" command

[Allin C. <cot...@wf...>]

On Thu, 9 Nov 2017, Tait wrote:

> Maybe this is a known issue, but the help commands don't
> seem to work. Normally "help set xtics" would pull up the
> help on xtics. It just seems to pull up a blank page now.

Oof, this is some Windows nonsense. Apparently they've decided that 
their "compiled HTML" help files are a serious security hole, so 
showing such help is disabled by default (hence the blank page).

If you right-click on the wgnuplot.chm file and select the 
"Properties" option there's an "unblock" check-box: check that and 
the Help will appear! (Don't ask me how any user is supposed to 
figure that out without savvy use of google.)

Allin Cottrell

AW: Windows binary package for testing, "help" command

[Bastian M. <bma...@we...>]

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Allin Cottrell [mailto:cot...@wf...]
> Gesendet: Freitag, 10. November 2017 00:55
> An: Tait <gnu...@t4...>
> Cc: gnuplot beta list <gnu...@li...>
> Betreff: Re: Windows binary package for testing, "help" command
> 
> On Thu, 9 Nov 2017, Tait wrote:
> 
> > Maybe this is a known issue, but the help commands don't seem to work.
> > Normally "help set xtics" would pull up the help on xtics. It just
> > seems to pull up a blank page now.
> 
> Oof, this is some Windows nonsense. Apparently they've decided that their
> "compiled HTML" help files are a serious security hole, so showing such
help is
> disabled by default (hence the blank page).
> 
> If you right-click on the wgnuplot.chm file and select the "Properties"
option
> there's an "unblock" check-box: check that and the Help will appear!
(Don't ask
> me how any user is supposed to figure that out without savvy use of
google.)
> 
> Allin Cottrell
> 

Thanks for testing. That is a somewhat weird problem, which I cannot
reproduce on two different machines (both different levels of Win10) I
tried. Also one of reasons for the installer was to avoid that Windows
"security" flag for CHM files. So changing that flag shouldn't be necessary.
If it is indeed needed in this case, I would not know why and how to avoid
that.
I will try to upload the zip file version tonight.

  Bastian