Re: [Gnuplot-info] trouble creating ps output

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

Vaughn Cable wrote:
> I've been using gnuplot for many years without difficulty, but recently, 
> when I upgraded my os to RHE 4.0, I ceased to be able to generate 
> postscript output.  

What exactly ceased?  How does it fail?

What were the gnuplot version before and after the upgrade?

We can't really help you much with details of behaviour of Linux 
distributor's binaries.  If those give you problems, you really should
either address them to the distributor, or at least cross-check them
against our original, unmodified release versions.

> set term postscript  'Helvetica-Oblique' 14
> set out "junk.ps"
[...]

> set label 1 "" at 30,-15 left
> set label 4 "" at 30,-18 left

What are these supposed to achieve??

> plot 'helix_nb-FAR.out' index 0 using 1:8,  [...]

> set term x11
> replot

This bodes trouble.  You never closed your output file 'junk.ps'. 
Please insert a

	set output

before the 'replot'.