Re: Do we need a -no-init-file option?

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

On Thursday 05 October 2006 10:30 am, Reiner Steib wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 05 2006, Petr Mikulik wrote:
> >> We have no such option, but it is an interesting point.
> >>
> >> 2) setenv GNUPLOTRC "" ; gnuplot
> >
> > Isn't sufficient:
> >  	setenv HOME "."
> > ?
>
> For ./tutorial, it would be sufficient, I think.

I've already fixed the problem with the tutorial.
Further discussion should better focus on the general case.


> For the general case it wont be a good work around. 

Right. If you reset HOME for the current session before running
gnuplot, all sorts of things will break.  A better work-around,
though still ugly, would be

  cat "" > .gnuplot ; gnuplot

That will create an empty initialization file in the current
directory, which will be used in preference to the one in $HOME.
Of course has the unpleasant side effect of leaving empty files
strewn around, and could destroy a legitimate pre-existing
.gnuplot file.


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