Re: [Gnuplot-info] Plot with many x tics: how to skip some?

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Paolo Pisati wrote:

> as the subjects says i've a plot with a lot x tics, and the output is 
> garbled, is there a way to skip some of them?

Well, you got what you asked for.  So maybe you shouldn't have asked for 
what you got.  Your command

> plot '$DATAFILE' using 2:xtic(1) title "Done", \
>         '' u 3:xtic(1) title "Running", \
>         '' u 4:xtic(1) title "Ready", \
>         '' u 5:xtic(1) title "Queued"

explicitly requests a tic label for each and every single data point. 
I.e. you turned your graph into an unholy mixture of a table and plot. 
The default behaviour of time/date axes may not always be perfect, but 
it's guaranteed to be vastly superior to a solid black rectangle below 
the plot generated by massively overprinted tick labels.