# Ruby/gnuplot on windows

**URL:** <https://rubytalk.org/t/ruby-gnuplot-on-windows/27496>\
**Category:** ruby-talk\
**Created:** [17 May 2006 07:49 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/ruby-gnuplot-on-windows/27496 "2006-05-17T07:49:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![Nuralanur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@Nuralanur](https://rubytalk.org/u/Nuralanur)\
**Post date:** [17 May 2006 07:49 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/ruby-gnuplot-on-windows/27496/1 "2006-05-17T07:49:10Z")

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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/](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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**Author:** ![Jon\_Dale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e274bd/32.png) [@Jon\_Dale](https://rubytalk.org/u/Jon_Dale)\
**Post date:** [17 May 2006 18:51 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/ruby-gnuplot-on-windows/27496/2 "2006-05-17T18:51:18Z")

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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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