Re: svg terminal is unsupported in djgpp gnuplot 4.2.2

[Tatsuro M. <tma...@ya...>]

Hello Hans



--- Hans-Bernhard Br醇rker <HBB...@t-...> wrote:

> Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote:
> > gnuplot> set term svg
> >                   ^
> >          unknown or ambiguous terminal type; type just 'set terminal' for a list
> > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >          
> > Is this a bug ?
> 
> Not quite.  It's a completely accurate message: in this gnuplot binary, 
> 'svg' is an ambiguous terminal name.  It could match either 'svga' or 
> 'svg'.  And somebody decided that gnuplot should output an error message 
> in this case.
> 
> The code is supposed to be able to recognize an exact match and report 
> it in spite of the ambiguity, but somehow this failed.
> 

OK I understand. But I think it is ambiguous and makes one panic like me.  I am happy if you think a
more comprehensive message for next release. 


Thanks!!

Tatsuro



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