Ruby/gnuplot on windows

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Dear Jon,

I tried what I wrote to you yesterday on Cygwin/Windows and it worked there.
Now, I have tried

gnuplot -persist g.plt´

where g.plt is a file containing just the line

plot sin(x)

and this works - without the persist, the plot disappears instantaneously, as
you mentioned.

Cygwin is a free, open-source attempt to make Unix run on Windows XP --
I have been using it for several years now along with various Linuxes --
most of the time things work, sometimes it drives me crazy, but by far not
as much as Windows does. You can get it here:

_http://www.cygwin.com/_ (http://www.cygwin.com/) .

Of course, Ruby will run on it. But I don't know whether they have the
newest version available as a binary. I installed Ruby by downloading the
tar-file from
Ruby's website, decompressed it
using

gunzip ruby*.zip
tar xvf ruby*tar
cd ruby*
./configure
make
make install

- so just the usual procedure...

Best regards,

Axel

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unknown wrote:

Dear Jon,

I tried what I wrote to you yesterday on Cygwin/Windows and it worked
there.
Now, I have tried

gnuplot -persist g.plt´

Axel,

I have always used windows and am not very familiar with Unix. How much
of a learning curve would there be to use cygwin? Gnuplot is supposed
to work with windows and most of it does. For some reason, I just can't
get a window to stay open. What is strange is that the pause command
doesn't work either, but all the other commands like plot etc...work.
I'll give cygwin a try, but that might be more difficult for me than
figuring out the original problem. Thanks for taking the time to help
me with this problem. I really appreciate it.

Jon

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