From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2006-06-07T07:44:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby and Gnuplot under Windows (was: Re: External applicationunder Windows)

ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Jun 2006, Daniel Berger wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> but doesn't seem to be in my ruby?  where are you getting it?
>
> -a
gem install ptools :)

I *thought* FileUtils had a 'which' equivalent, but I guess I was mistaken.

Regards,

Dan