Re: funny filenames on Windows?

[Allin C. <cot...@wf...>]

On Wed, 16 Feb 2011, Benjamin Lindner wrote:

> > 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"?

Exit status 1; I'd like more information but I don't have it at
present.

> 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.

OK, thanks for testing. Then it seems it's not the plot filename
that's the problem. I'll pursue other possibilities.

Allin Cottrell