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[Gnuplot-info] set term table not valid in gnuplot version 4.4.3 and 4.6?

[Jon <dev...@gm...>]

Dear All,

I try to use term table, but gnuplot complains the following,

unknown or ambiguous terminal type; type just 'set terminal' for a list

I type in help set term and cannot find term table in the list. The version
of gnuplot for it is

G N U P L O T
        Version 4.4 patchlevel 3

I also checked on version 4.6 patchlevel 0, but still cannot find table
terminal.

Can you help me solve this issue? I do need table terminal to help make
sure whether data extracted are the correct data to plot.

Thanks,

Sincerely,
Jon

Re: [Gnuplot-info] set term table not valid in gnuplot version 4.4.3 and 4.6?

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

> Dear All,
> 
> I try to use term table, but gnuplot complains the following,
> ...
> Can you help me solve this issue? I do need table terminal to help make
> sure whether data extracted are the correct data to plot.

There is no table terminal. There is a "set" option to generate output
as a table instead of the normal terminal output. This is "set table"
and you can read about it with "help table". Although, perhaps table
as a terminal would make more sense than the current system.

Re: [Gnuplot-info] set term table not valid in gnuplot version 4.4.3 and 4.6?

[Jon <dev...@gm...>]

Thanks, Tait, I think I mistakenly remembered it to be "set term table" but
actually it is "set table". One thing is that it has on website

http://t16web.lanl.gov/Kawano/gnuplot/plot3d-e.html

which seems to me a pretty popular one for getting tips on using gnuplot,
has used "set term table" as an example, which has added up to my
confusion. Is there anything you might comment on?

Thanks again,

Sincerely,
Jon

On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 3:55 AM, Tait <gnu...@t4...> wrote:

> > Dear All,
> >
> > I try to use term table, but gnuplot complains the following,
> > ...
> > Can you help me solve this issue? I do need table terminal to help make
> > sure whether data extracted are the correct data to plot.
>
> There is no table terminal. There is a "set" option to generate output
> as a table instead of the normal terminal output. This is "set table"
> and you can read about it with "help table". Although, perhaps table
> as a terminal would make more sense than the current system.
>
>
>

Re: [Gnuplot-info] set term table not valid in gnuplot version 4.4.3 and 4.6?

[Hans-Bernhard B. <HBB...@t-...>]

On 07.05.2012 10:55, Tait wrote:

> There is no table terminal. There is a "set" option to generate output
> as a table instead of the normal terminal output. This is "set table"
> and you can read about it with "help table". Although, perhaps table
> as a terminal would make more sense than the current system.

You got that backwards.  It _used_ to be "set term table", but for 
various reasons, it was changed to "set table" as of release 4.2.0 (five 
years old now).