[21101] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 9.1.14: gnuplot
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Wed Nov 20 12:57:41 2002
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Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 12:57:39 -0500
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From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
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In fact, gnuplot on Linux also support png, whereas the Sun version
doesn't. This is extremely aggravating, as these are the only two
useful formats for web display that gnuplot can generate, and neither
of them works on Solaris.
-Jon
At 12:54 PM -0500 on 11/20/02, you wrote:
>System name: gaston.mit.edu
>Type and version: Ultra-5_10 9.1.14 (with mkserv)
>Display type: m
>
>Shell: /bin/athena/tcsh
>Window manager: ctwm -W
>
>What were you trying to do?
> Generate a gif from gnuplot
>
>What's wrong:
> gnuplot> set term gif
> ^
> unknown or ambiguous terminal type; type just 'set terminal'
>for a list
>
>
>What should have happened:
> It should have responded with
> gnuplot> set term gif
> Terminal type set to 'gif'
> Options are 'small size 640,480 '
>
> It appears that gnuplot doesn't know about the gif file format
> under Solaris, yet it works perfectly fine under Linux. This is
> bad, because both platforms are running version 3.7, patchlevel
> 1, yet they behave differently. It would be nice if they worked
> the same way, or if this discrepancy were documented somewhere.
>
>Please describe any relevant documentation references:
> http://www.ucc.ie/gnuplot/gnuplot-faq.html
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