Re: [Gnuplot-info] read file to datablock

[Ethan A M. <eam...@gm...>]

On Monday, 12 November 2018 20:41:56 theozh wrote:
> Hi Ethan,
> based on your suggestion... the following seems to work under Windows.
> In case anybody on Windows might be interested.
> Although pretty ugly and cumbersome...
> 1. writing 2 files to disk
> 2. reading and concatenating 3 files from disk
> 3. writing another file to disk
> 4. and reading this file from disk
> 
> I am wondering whether this will work properly with extremely large files on extremely slow network drives?

Copying the original data into new file first and then reading it in a
separate step is strictly worse than directing it through a pipe.

So no, I would not recommend the file-based Method3 you show below.

Hopefully someone more familiar than I am with MSWin can help with
the commands needed to direct the catenation operation through a pipe.

	Ethan



> 
> Thanks,
> Theo.
> 
> ### Read file "as is" to datablock under Windows
> reset session
> FILE = "Test.dat"
> 
> # Method3
> set print "head"
> print "$Data3 << EOD"
> set print "tail"
> print "EOD"
> set print
> 
> system "type head ".FILE." tail > Temp.dat"
> load "Temp.dat"
> print $Data3
> ### end of code
> 
> 
> 
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