From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-05-17T01:42:49+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby/gnuplot on windows

On Wed, 17 May 2006, Jon Dean wrote:

> unknown wrote:
>> I don't know about persist flags, but as a quick-and-dirty solution,
>> you
>> could either use something like the 'pause' Gnuplot command:
>>
>> pause 10
>>
>> or
>>
>> pause -1 "Hit any key to continue"
>>
>>  (pause 10 will hold the graph for 10 seconds etc.) or you could have
>> the
>> plot exported directly to postscript format,
>> so you can see it using ghostview, using the following Gnuplot
>> commands.
>>
>>
>> set terminal postscript enhanced color
>> set output  "my_nice_plot.eps"
>> plot sin(x)
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Axel
>
> Thanks, I'll try that out.  I'm sure this problem with the persist flag
> will still eat at me though.

how are you running the examples?  using ruby, rubyw, from console, etc?

what happens if you do

   dos prompt> irb

   irb prompt> load 'plot_example.rb'

??

-a
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