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and subject line Not a bug but a feature
has caused the Debian Bug report #417578,
regarding comment line with \ renders gnuplot unusable
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Package: gnuplot
Version: 4.0.0-5
Severity: normal
Hi!
Suppose you have a data file called "foo.dat" (the actual content is
irrelevant):
0 4
1 3
2 2
3 1
4 0
When someone uses gnuplot with "foo.gp" as input file, everything works
fine and gnuplot generates "foo.eps":
set term post eps enhanced
set out "foo.eps"
set data style linespoints
set xtic ("0" 0,"1" 1,"2" 2, "3" 3, "4" 4)
# this works as expected
plot "foo.dat" title "foo"
But if the comment line right before the plot function has a '\'
character at the end, gnuplot silently rejects the input file and
doesn't create the resp. eps file:
set term post eps enhanced
set out "foo.eps"
set data style linespoints
set xtic ("0" 0,"1" 1,"2" 2, "3" 3, "4" 4)
# this doesn't work due to escape char --> \
plot "foo.dat" title "foo"
Best regards,
Thomas Krennwallner
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages gnuplot depends on:
ii gnuplot-nox 4.0.0-5 A command-line driven interactive
ii gnuplot-x11 4.0.0-5 X11-terminal driver for gnuplot
gnuplot recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Hi,
According to upstream
This is not a bug. A backslash at the end of a line means that the contents
of the next line are interpreted as the continuation of the current line -
as if the newline were never there.
In the example this means that the plot command is effectively commented
out, so there is nothing to plot.
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