[Gnuplot-info] Question on variables

[Dieter J. <die...@t-...>]

Dear listmembers,
dear Thomas,
this is just to let you know that I worked hard through this week using the 
new "delete <VARIABLENAME>" function intensively. It works like a charm, I 
never noticed any issue.
I would be glad if this patch could find it's way into "official" gnuplot CVS.

One additional thing I found and would be glad to see:
if you use a configuration file, say
.myconfig
and you want to load it at the beginning of your script to initialize some 
variables, the file _must_ be present in order to make gnuplot work on.

IMHO it would be great to have an option to load the file if present and 
ignore it if not present, maybe a new command like "loadcfg", maybe the old 
command issuing a message but not stopping gnuplot as is now. Such a kind of 
functionality is only available for .gnuplot in your home-directory so far, 
IMHO ".gnuplot" should be kept for "general" options rather than "specific" 
script options.

I solve this currently via a preceeding command:
system ("test ! -f <filename> && touch <filename>")
load "<filename>

but this is only working in a linux/unix environment and thus not portable.
Any comments?
Thank you very much,
take care



Dieter Jurzitza

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