Re: [Gnuplot-info] how to tell gnuplot version and other things from a script

[Thomas S. <t.s...@fz...>]

should work on all platforms:
gnuplot --version
gnuplot -V


Mark Seger wrote:
> 
> I've been playing around a little more with different versions and it
> looks like this problem is with 4.2.0 but 4.2.1 forward seems to be ok. 
> However I am still interested in finding out if there is a way to tell
> tell a gnuplot version from a script on a windows platform.
> -mark
> 
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Seger, Mark
>>Sent: Friday, July 03, 2009 8:33 AM
>>To: gnu...@li...
>>Subject: how to tell gnuplot version and other things from a script
>>
>>I have a script that uses gnuplot to do its plotting and needs to be
>>able to run with different versions.  It runs primarily in a linux
>>environment but occasionally on windows too.  In the case of windows I
>>have not been able to figure out the gnuplot version but on linux
>>discovered I could:
>>
>>echo show version | gnuplot
>>
>>and parse the output.  But I just tried this with gnuplot V4.2 and
>>discovered that while it works, I get a warning that it can't open the X
>>display and this causes my script to hang for a long time and is not the
>>behavior on earlier versions and doesn't seem to make sense anyway since
>>not everyone runs gnuplot on X terminals.
>>
>>The second thing I'm trying to do is determine the size font a png
>>terminal will use and I found I could do this with:
>>
>>(echo set terminal png; echo show terminal) | gnuplot
>>
>>but again I get that X11 warning.
>>
>>Finally, even if my terminal type is X, if I run the commands from a
>>script they hang for awhile but work fine on earlier versions.
>>
>>That said, my question(s) come down to:
>>
>>what is the best/most efficient way to get the gnuplot versions and png
>>font sizes from a script?
>>less important but still something that would be nice is to have a way
>>to do this in a windows environment.
>>
>>-mark
>>
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