[Fwd: Gnuplot: MAX_NUM_VAR in src/syscfg.h]

[Lars H. <lhe...@us...>]

----- Forwarded message from Eeri Kask <ee...@in...> -----

Dear Mr. Gaylord,

may I ask to advance the #define'd compile-time parameter

     MAX_NUM_VAR

in src/syscfg.h from 5 to something like 20 or so?  :-)

I am doing some plotting of functions of analytical geometry in R^3 and 
as I am afraid Gnuplot does not support vector/matrix data/arithmetics I 
have to define functions to compute e.g. vector dot products and the 
like by myself:

     DotProduct (a1,b1,c1,a2,b2,c2) = a1*a2 + b1*b2 + c1*c2;

providing components of all vectors (resp. matrices) as function call 
parameters.  So it is a little unlucky if the abovementioned dot product 
function parsing fails at 'c2'.

This is a matter of discomfort simply, as I have to compile Gnuplot 
always separately instead of installing precompiled binaries provided by 
most Linux distributors.  :-)

Greetings,

     Eeri Kask

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