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Re: opening .gp file ...newbie user

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On Wednesday, 28 February 2018 13:39:34 UTC+1, Jörg Buchholz  wrote:
> On 28.02.2018 12:11, david@artandconservation.net wrote:
> > On Wednesday, 28 February 2018 08:48:25 UTC+1, Karl Ratzsch  wrote:
> >> Am 28.02.2018 um 08:03 schrieb david@artandconservation.net:
> >>> I recently got an important chart/info, a file with a .gp file extension. I installed Gnuplot and tried to open the said file. Being a total newbie and not familiar with coding language, I would greatly appreciate your help! I tried to search about this file extension, assuming that the file contains data or even a chart, but I may be wrong... 
> >>>
> >>
> >> 1. Ask the funny guy who sent you the file.
> >> 2. Ask so. else to whom you can show the actual file
> >> 3. .gp contains script to draw a graph, usually but not necessarily
> >> WITHOUT the actual data.
> > 
> > Thank you for your reply. To be honest I also got the actual data and photo of the plot. I got the following files: png, eps, gp, csv. So I need more than one file to open the plot in Gnuplot?!
> > 
> Have a look into the .gp file via your favored Editor. The gnuplot code
> is nearly plain English, so you can see which files you need and what
> gnuplot will be done.
> 
> Then first start gnuplot and load the "gnuplot-code" via
> 
> load 'your-code-file-name'
> 
> If there are errors you can see them in the gnuplot console.
> 
> Jörg

My system is Windows 10 64bit. So I need to download and install another program to read the gp file, which contains instructions on which files I need to open. I was told that Gnuplot is very user friendly (being ironic of course) :)

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opening .gp file ...newbie user david@artandconservation.net - 2018-02-27 23:03 -0800
  Re: opening .gp file ...newbie user Karl Ratzsch <mail.kfr@gmx.net> - 2018-02-28 08:48 +0100
    Re: opening .gp file ...newbie user david@artandconservation.net - 2018-02-28 03:11 -0800
      Re: opening .gp file ...newbie user Colin Brough <Colin.Brough@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2018-02-28 11:52 +0000
      Re: opening .gp file ...newbie user Jörg Buchholz <bookwood4new@freenet.de> - 2018-02-28 13:39 +0100
        Re: opening .gp file ...newbie user david@artandconservation.net - 2018-02-28 05:48 -0800
          Re: opening .gp file ...newbie user Jörg Buchholz <bookwood4new@freenet.de> - 2018-02-28 15:28 +0100
          Re: opening .gp file ...newbie user Björn Lundin <b.f.lundin@gmail.com> - 2018-03-01 10:38 +0100
      Re: opening .gp file ...newbie user Dr Engelbert Buxbaum <engelbert_buxbaum@hotmail.com> - 2018-04-10 12:18 +0200

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