Re: redirecting gnuplot's print command

[Ethan A M. <sf...@us...>]

On Wednesday, February 13, 2013 11:06:15 am pl...@pi... wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> may be I''m being a bit slow or just not looking in the right place but 
> I can't see a means to redirect output of a gnuplot print command to a 
> file.

  help set print

> 
> I'm running series of fit and plot commands in a loop using gnuplot 
> iteration and I need to capture the output of some information (but not 
> get spammed by fit) I am printing at each step.
> 
> I have set fit quiet and get the output I need directly in the gnuplot 
> shell , so hackwise I could just scroll back and forth and copy and 
> paste, but it's a fag to do since there's rather a lot and this could 
> lead inaccuracies and copy errors I need to avoid.
> 
> I want to get output like to following into a file, what am I missing?
> 
> print  sprintf("  len=%s; fitted =  %5.3fm =  %5.3fa",len, 
> p1*len,p1*len/12.);
> 
> 
> many thanks, Peter.