Re: funny filenames on Windows?

[Benjamin L. <bj...@gm...>]

> I'm wondering, is it likely that gnuplot would have a problem on
> MS Windows if the name of a plot file given as a command line
> argument contained an apostrophe?
>
> I ask because of a problem report from a user of my program,
> gretl, which calls gnuplot: in this case the command line (passed
> to the Windows API function CreateProcess) would look something
> like:
>
> "c:\path\to\wgnuplot.exe" "c:\users\silly's\subdir\plot.gp"
>
> The command is not working; I'm not certain the apostrophe is the
> problem but it seems a likely candidate. (I'm pretty sure the plot
> file itself is well-formed.)

How exactly is it "not working"?
I tested your example using a simple tes't.gp file containing
   set term windows
   plot sin(x)

and called c:\path\to\wgnuplot "c:\path\to\tes't.gp"
and it works as expected.

To make sure it's not your plot file that's causing an error, why
don't you try it from within wgnuplot by
load "c:\path\to\whatever.gp"
and see if there are errors?

benjamin