Re: [Gnuplot-bugs] Script parsing in version 4.0 (testcase)

[Hans-Bernhard B. <br...@ph...>]

On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Lutz Maibaum wrote:

> I noticed the following behavior of gnuplot 4.0, see the attached file: the 
> command
>   cat test.gp | gnuplot -persist
> aborts with the error message "invalid character", but running this script 
> from within gnuplot with the "load" command works just fine. Under gnuplot 
> 3.7.1, both methods produce the desired result.

Which platform?

> I'm sorry for the very strange looking testcase, I couldn't reduce any more 
> and still trigger this behavior. Even deleting a single space in front of the 
> "plot" command cures this problem.

That suggests two possible reasons:

1) Command line length
2) Timing

I suspect the latter, since running this on Linux with a different
terminal than X11, like this:

	cat test.gp | env GNUTERM=dumb gnuplot -persist

gave me a plot instead of any error message.

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