Re: demos

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Friday 04 August 2006 10:12 am, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> Ethan Merritt wrote:
> > On Friday 04 August 2006 09:43 am, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> >>First, could this
> >>"gnuplot-defined variables" be made a permanent thing?
> >
> > I do not understand the question.
>
> You said: "Of course, this requires that string variables are
> configure in (now the default)."  But string vars are something
> different.  The GPVAL_VERSION is always present then and can't be
> configured out of gnuplot some how?  (I haven't followed the GPVAL_
> threads.)

I still don't understand the question.

GPVAL_VERSION is a floating point number, and is always defined.

But GPVAL_COMPILE_OPTIONS is a string, so it can only
be loaded into a variable if string support is configured.

> >>I think I've  been asked if gnuplot somehow could return its
> >> version.
> >
> > gnuplot --version
> > gnuplot -V
>
> That helps a little bit in the sense that it weeds out a lot.  But it
> still isn't at the command line...

Er, then what do you mean by "command line"?

-- 
Ethan A Merritt
Biomolecular Structure Center
University of Washington, Seattle WA