From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2006-06-07T07:23:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby and Gnuplot under Windows (was: Re: External application under Windows)

Nuralanur@aol.com wrote:
>  
> Dear Chris,
>  
> thanks for pointing me to ruby gnuplot. However, I need to
> set up a connection under Windows XP (in addition to one
> in Linux).
> Now, in the manual of Ruby Gnuplot,
> it says:
>  
>  
> Gnuplot.open  
> Instantiates a new Gnuplot process. The path to the executable is  determined 
> on a Unix or MacOSX system using the which command. Windows users,  I have no 
> idea what to do. If a block is given to the function the opened  process is 
> passed into the block. This mimics the most common usage of the  File.open 
> method.
>   
Note to author of Gnuplot.open: use File.which, from the ptools 
package.  It's cross platform.

Regards,

Dan