Path: csiph.com!news.fcku.it!peer03.fr7!futter-mich.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!fx12.am4.POSTED!not-for-mail Subject: Re: opening .gp file ...newbie user Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot References: From: Colin Brough User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-GB Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 36 Message-ID: <2KwlC.3$3K4.1@fx12.am4> X-Complaints-To: http://netreport.virginmedia.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2018 11:52:30 UTC Organization: virginmedia.com Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2018 11:52:30 +0000 X-Received-Bytes: 2737 X-Received-Body-CRC: 2056579906 Xref: csiph.com comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot:3895 On 28/02/18 11:11, 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?! The likelihood is that the data is in the .csv file, the instructions that gnuplot use to generate the plot are in the .gp file, and that the .png and .eps files are output from gnuplot. But that's an educated guess, not definitely true. Information about how to actually open the .gp file using gnuplot will vary depending on what operating system you are using - on Linux I'd try, in a terminal window, entering the command "gnuplot FILE.gp" - where FILE is the name of the .gp file. Oh, and make sure you have a safe copy of the .png and .eps files in some other folder/directory, so you don't lose anything - you say this is an important plot...! Cheers Colin -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Colin Brough Colin.Brough@blueyonder.invalid (Replace .invalid with .co.uk to reply)