Re: Re: Question: intent of "set datafile binary"?

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> From: Petr Mikulik <mi...@ph...>
> Date: 2005/11/27 Sun PM 12:48:25 EST
> To: Ethan A Merritt <merritt@u.washington.edu>
> CC: gnuplot <gnu...@li...>, 
>         Daniel J Sebald <dan...@ie...>
> Subject: Re: Question: intent of "set datafile binary"?
> 
> > So far as I can tell, the command
> >    set datafile binary
> > does not accomplish anything at all.
> >
> > I had assumed it was intended to make subsequent input default
> > to binary, but perhaps not.
> >
> > That is, I expected the two following sequences would produce
> > the same result.  But they don't.  The second sequence tries
> > to read the input as ascii.
> >
> > # All in-line
> > plot 'foo' binary with image
> >
> > # Set defaults
> > set datafile binary
> > plot 'foo' with image
> 
> I think the command "set datafile binary" should not switch to binary 
> reading because there is no an opposite switch like "plot 'bla' ascii".
> 
> I think it should behave this way:
> gnuplot> set datafile binary
>  			     ^
>  			option expected
> 

I've no strong opinion on this.  Could program either way.

> 
> BTW: "show datafile binary" says
>    "int64" (8) -- processor does not support this size
>    "uint64" (8) -- processor does not support this size
> but I think they are supported as "long long int" on i386.

I guess I did see the syntax "long long" the other day.  (Personally, I'd never expect such thing in a programming language.  The imprecision of it is that a programmer could easily jump to the conclusion that long long just means long.)  I can fix that.

Dan