Re: differences between the gnuplot binary and its help

[Shigeharu T. <sh...@ie...>]

shige 02/26 2010
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Ethan Merritt <merritt@u.washington.edu> wrote:
| Could you please start a new bug tracker entry for this on SourceForge,
| and upload the mkbin.c and mkbin.gp files to go with it?

OK, I will do.

| The binary file routines use fseek(), which will not work on
| piped input.  I do not know if the code can be re-written so
| as to not use fseek(). 

To workaround, to use temporary file having the data of piped 
input. But, I think it is better to add the comment for it to the
the document than to use mktemp().

| To me the layout described by the documentation is more natural,
| but that is not what the code implements.

I agree with you.

| Work-around:
|    splot "mkbin.dat" binary matrix using 2:1:3 with lines

I confirm it.

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