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Subject: Re: gnuplot won't work with new net release
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From: "Dr. Volker Zell" <vzell@de.oracle.com>
Date: 21 Apr 2000 17:18:07 +0200
In-Reply-To: "Tom Weichmann"'s message of "Thu, 20 Apr 2000 18:09:40 -0700"
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>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Weichmann <tomcw@localnet.com> writes:

    Tom> I am not sure what you mean.  I opened up a dos prompt and tried 
    Tom> cd /tmp and received an invalid switch error.  If I cd %tmp% it takes 
    Tom> me to C:\windows\temp, but that does not work in cygnus.  I guess 
    Tom> that the only fix to this is to port gnuplot to the cygwin platform, 


gnuplot 3.7 from

   o http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Foothills/6647/

compiles OOTB for me with the following configure command:

./configure  --with-gnu-readline=/usr/local/lib --with-plot=/usr/local/lib --with-gd=/usr/local/lib --with-png=/usr/local/lib --with-x

    Tom> instead of tring to get cygwin to communicate with the win32 port.  
    Tom> I heard once that Mumit Kahn had some kind of patch for gnuplot, 
    Tom> but I'm not sure exactly what it was.  I was hoping that there was 
    Tom> some kind of work around for this, but I can not think of anything.  
    Tom> Is there any way to set the CYGWIN env variable to prevent this 
    Tom> translation of file names?

    Tom> Thanks,

    Tom> Tom Weichmann

Ciao
  Volker


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