Gnuplot on Windows-Solved

Paul Simmonds psimmo60 at hotmail.com
Thu Nov 28 05:19:03 EST 2002


>Hi
>
>In gp_win32.py:
>I have found that just putting the full path in single quotes, e.g.
>
>gnuplot_command = 'c:\program files\wgnuplot\pgnuplot.exe'
>
>does not work (probably because of the space), but that the following works 
>well
>
>gnuplot_command = '"c:\program files\wgnuplot\pgnuplot.exe"'
>
>I am using the newest 1.6 version of gnuplot.py.
>
>There is a Windows binary of Gnuplot 3.8i available in Petr Mikulik's site
>http://www.sci.muni.cz/~mikulik/gnuplot/gp38i-Oct05_2002-winbin.zip
>
>Hope this helps
>Jannie Hofmeyr
>
Thanks Jannie. It did.

I can't believe it was as simple as that. Oh well, I guess it's a sign that 
I've been Unixing for too long when the long filename thing starts to bug my 
programs. Thanks for the link too.

Thanks everybody who put forward solutions.
Paul

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