Re: multiple plot lines with plot '-'

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

On Mon, 14 May 2012, Hans-Bernhard Bröker wrote:

> 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.

Insofar as the snippet I posted is actually entered on stdin, or by 
the other methods you cite, then Yes, the "stdin" quality of the 
data is not in question. But plotter and I were talking about the 
use of this syntax in an integrated plot file, and in that context 
the "stdin-ness" is a fiction; the data are supplied "as if" via
stdin.

Allin Cottrell