Re: multiple plot lines with plot '-'

[Hans-Bernhard B. <HBB...@t-...>]

On 14.05.2012 19:13, Allin Cottrell wrote:

> On the other hand, with the plot-file syntax

> plot '-' using ...
> <inline-data>
> e

> it's sort of a fiction that the source is stdin, isn't it?

No.  Because that's not "plot file syntax".  That's gnuplot command 
syntax, which can and quite frequently will be entered on stdin --- 
either by actually typing it in, or copy-pasting into a console session, 
or by stdin being redirected from a file, or from some other program.