Re: Purpose of xlib terminal ?

[Jonathan T. <jt...@ae...>]

On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:
> Not really.  Xlib output is supposed to be to the x11 driver what the EMF
> driver would be for the Windows driver.  It's essentially a metafile, i.e.
> a stored record of drawing commands. In theory, this lets you run gnuplot
> itself and gnuplot_x11 on different machines. E.g.:
> 
> 	rsh somebox gnuplot scriptfile | gnuplot_x11
> 
> would run gnuplot remotely, but gnuplot_x11 on the local machine. This
> might be useful in setups where X11 traffic is not allowed from the remote
> "somebox" to your local one, or where the remote machine doesn't even have
> X11.
> 
> I don't think anyone in the current team has even the slightest idea how
> often this feature was ever used by anyone, or even if it ever was used at
> all.

I have used a slight variant a lot:

    set term gnuplot_x11
    set output 'movie.gnuplot-x11'
    load 'gnuplot script (probably generated by a perl program) which
          will read gigabytes of data files and produce a 1000-frame movie'
    set output

then copy movie.gnuplot-x11 to another machine (which doesn't have the
data files accessible), and play the movie there via
    gnuplot_x11 <movie.gnuplot-x11

ciao,
 
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