Re: missing binary flag for demo.edf

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

Ethan Merritt wrote:
> On Friday 30 June 2006 10:15 am, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> 
>>Leaving image.dem as ASCII may be safe.
> 
> 
> I've just flagged it as binary.  I guess we'll see if there are
> any complaints.
> 
> 
>>Maybe there is something '| < blutux.rgb' that could be used that
>>would work in both Linux and Windows?  Suggestions?
> 
> 
> It was my understanding that only certain flavors of Windows build
> understood pipes.  So I don't think this is possible in general.
> But I also don't think it is an important part of the demo.
> We explain pipes and piped input in other places, and I don't see
> anything very special about this place in particular.

Mainly to illustrate that it works for binary data as well as ASCII, which is a big use in my mind.  (I.e., that your bigger application can pipe binary data across to gnuplot.)  And, of course, for having an example in the demos for purposes of verification when testing gnuplot...

I suppose this example wouldn't exactly have to be under "image", but that is the way things evolve, I guess.  Speaking of which, probably the text below can be removed from image.dem.  There is nothing uniqe about image.dem as far as knowing how to set an output terminal.  Although, it is nice to have that reminder of set output '| display png:-'".

Dan