Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 14:47:33 +0200 From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker Message-Id: <199907201247.OAA00367@acp3bf.physik.rwth-aachen.de> To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: initialization file for gnuplot 3.7 Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Organization: RWTH Aachen, III. physikalisches Institut B X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com In article <199907191932 DOT OAA07195 AT darwin DOT sfbr DOT org> you wrote: > I'd like to have ~/_gnuplot be the initialization file, in keeping with > many other djgpp ports. Can this be done without recompiling gnuplot? > AFAICT the initialization file (under MS-DOS) *must* be called GNUPLOT.INI > (which of course could load _gnuplot, but then what would be the point?). It can't be changed without recompiling the binary (or modifying it in-place), that much is true. Among others, such a change would be contradicting the gnuplot documentation, thus introducing a bug into your version of gnuplot, unless you change the docs as well. I really fail to see any good reason for this behaviour. Unlike most of the existing GNU programs, gnuplot *does* already have a documented working solution for it's startup file on MS-DOS, and that's been so for well over five years, now. Changing it just because you don't like the current file name would break other users' expectations without any good reason. -- Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de) Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.