Re: differences between the gnuplot binary and its help

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

On Tuesday 23 February 2010 02:45:54 Shigeharu TAKENO wrote:
> 3) Gnuplot help says as the following ("set datafile missing"):
> 
>    Example:
>          set datafile missing "?"
>          set style data lines
>          plot '-'
>             1 10
>             2 20
>             3 ?
>             4 40
>             5 50
>             e
>     ....
>    The first `plot` will recognize only the first datum in the "3 ?" line.  It
>    will use the single-datum-on-a-line convention that the line number is "x"
>    and the datum is "y", so the point will be plotted (in this case erroneously)
>    at (2,3).
>   
> However, it, mentioned above, is the behavior when not using 'set 
> datafile missing "?"'. Using 'set datafile missing "?"', the line
> "3 ?" will be ignored correctly.

Yes. This could be stated more clearly in the documentation.
We should try to improve the wording.

	Ethan