Re: [Gnuplot-bugs] No lines in plots

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Christian Lerrahn wrote:

> in gnuplot 4.0, when I try to plot a line plot, I get an empty diagram.
> I can plot points and linespoints will just look like points whereas
> lines just plots nothing. 

The most probable cause of such a problem is a broken data file.  This 
is what you get if you have empty lines in the data file after every record.

Does this happen with the demos and their data files, too?

 > I have this problem on both Gentoo Linux and
> FC3 Linux. However, I'm pretty sure that it used to work on Gentoo
> and stopped working without an update of the gnuplot package. I
> therefore suspect that this is caused by some library. 

Unless that library happens to be libc itself, that's pretty much 
impossible.

> I've included the Gentoo revisions but as this problem also occurs on
> FC3, I'm inclined to thin that they don't matter. The problem exists at
> least with x11, PNG, and PS terminals. 

... and since the PostScript terminal uses no third-party library at 
all, library changes are extremely unlikely to have caused this.

 > Could it be GDlib?

No.