Re: PostScript prologue [was: 16-bit versions of gnuplot doomed?]

[Petr M. <mi...@ph...>]

Instead of forcing to compile gnuplot 4.0 under 16bit with crippled
functionality, what about to extend gnuplot 3.7.3 to 3.7.4 so that it
supports "unset blabla" and "set style xxx" instead of the previous?


> every output document is stored as a separate file in some appropriate
> directory, and then copied into the output stream when a new

I'm like this way -- people are used to have a single (or two)  executables
and will be happening that under crazy installations, they won't be able to
create postscript files, and thus cry a lot.

> 3) It is possible to have multiple, printer- or language- specific, prologues.

There could be a new option for the postscript driver to load such personal
prologues. But that's a new feature never needed until now.

> separate prologue file might get lost if the installation process is botched.
> But this shouldn't be any worse than having to correctly find the outboard
> gnuplot_x11 driver, or the help file.

Unixish people do mostly "make install", but all others (using "*.exe"
binaries) will definitely loose this file frequently.

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Petr Mikulik