Re: [Gnuplot-info] (no subject)

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Ron Watkins wrote:
> Im having 2 problems. First, when gnuplot starts (Windows), it comes up in
> Terminal font, and I have to change the font to Courier New so that I can
> read the screen. 

Changing the font is almost certainly not necessary.  Changing its size, is.

 > Is there some way to save this setting as the default?

Yes.  "Update [...]wgnuplot.ini" in the same menu you found "Choose 
font...".

> Second, im having trouble in the plot command with trying to figure out
> where the file is expected to be. I have tried my documents, the directory
> where the bin file is located, C:, others with no luck. Is there a way to
> determine where it expects to see the data files, 

Yes.  gnuplot has a current working directory, and all relative 
pathnames are relative to that.  You can change it using 'cd', and check 
it using 'pwd'.  If you load a script via the 'File' menu, gnuplot will 
'cd' to its directory automatically.

> or is there a way to provide a full pathname to the data file?

Yes, and yes.  I'm wondering how the latter can fail to be obvious: of 
course you can pass the full pathname as an argument.  The only tricky 
business is that paths had better be typed using forward slashes:

	plot 'c:/foo/whatever/my.dat'

because you have to use single quotes, or double up all backslashes:

	plot 'c:\foo\whatever\my.dat'
	plot "c:\\foo\\whatever\\my.dat"