Re: Purpose of xlib terminal ?

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

> On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> > =09rsh somebox gnuplot scriptfile | gnuplot_x11

On Monday 17 November 2003 05:13, Jonathan Thornburg wrote:
> I have used a slight variant a lot:
>
>     set term gnuplot_x11
>     set output 'movie.gnuplot-x11'
> then copy to another machine and play the movie there via
>     gnuplot_x11 <movie.gnuplot-x11


OK. Then I propose to replace the existing xlib.trm code with a
minimal xlib.trm that has its own term->init to set up the output
file, but uses the normal x11.trm routines for everything else.
That way it stays current with x11 when changes are made,
yet takes up virtually no space on its own.
Already tested.  It works as expected.


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Ethan A Merritt       merritt@u.washington.edu
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