Re: names of gnuplot Win32 binaries

[Hans-Bernhard B. <HBB...@t-...>]

Petr Mikulik wrote:

> The pgnuplot program serves to capture the standard input and pass it to 
> gnuplot for drawing. As it is more efficient to pass data to gnuplot.exe 
> instead of wgnuplot.exe (it was the aim of the console mode gnuplot), then
> pgnuplot.c could use this code:

No.  pgnuplot can stay as it is.  Real console gnuplot does more than 
pgnuplot can, and does it better.  So programs using pgnuplot now will 
want to switch to the new gnuplot.exe anyway.

Yes, programs using pgnuplot now will have to be modified.  But for most 
of them that modification will just be a simplification --- they don't 
need to special-case Windows any more.

> Then Windows programs can use the traditional method of piping to 
> pgnuplot.exe on Windows but with improved efficiency. 

Or they can just call gnuplot.exe directly, which is better in every 
conceivable way.