X-Received: by 10.36.68.196 with SMTP id o187mr14082681ita.41.1519825719879; Wed, 28 Feb 2018 05:48:39 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.157.96.5 with SMTP id h5mr800356otj.14.1519825719607; Wed, 28 Feb 2018 05:48:39 -0800 (PST) Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!feeder.usenetexpress.com!feeder-in1.iad1.usenetexpress.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!e10no126051itf.0!news-out.google.com!a2ni2041ite.0!nntp.google.com!w142no694590ita.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2018 05:48:39 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=217.71.190.138; posting-account=svyAXgoAAABP26t5E6vbb3PyIAe93Hd- NNTP-Posting-Host: 217.71.190.138 References: User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <152a9eba-b75c-4547-9e01-67d1fbd01a26@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: opening .gp file ...newbie user From: david@artandconservation.net Injection-Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2018 13:48:39 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Lines: 35 Xref: csiph.com comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot:3897 On Wednesday, 28 February 2018 13:39:34 UTC+1, J=C3=B6rg 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 extens= ion. I installed Gnuplot and tried to open the said file. Being a total new= bie and not familiar with coding language, I would greatly appreciate your = help! I tried to search about this file extension, assuming that the file c= ontains data or even a chart, but I may be wrong...=20 > >>> > >> > >> 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. > >=20 > > Thank you for your reply. To be honest I also got the actual data and p= hoto of the plot. I got the following files: png, eps, gp, csv. So I need m= ore than one file to open the plot in Gnuplot?! > >=20 > 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. >=20 > Then first start gnuplot and load the "gnuplot-code" via >=20 > load 'your-code-file-name' >=20 > If there are errors you can see them in the gnuplot console. >=20 > J=C3=B6rg My system is Windows 10 64bit. So I need to download and install another pr= ogram to read the gp file, which contains instructions on which files I nee= d to open. I was told that Gnuplot is very user friendly (being ironic of c= ourse) :)