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Re: setting a permanent new working gnuplot 4.6 directory under Windows?

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On Friday, June 29, 2012 3:23:38 PM UTC-4, Hans-Bernhard Bröker wrote:
> On 29.06.2012 17:31, TonyG wrote:
> 
> > How exactly do I set the GNUPLOT_LIB parameter
> 
> That's not a parameters, it's an environment variable.  

Yep, I plead guilty of a nomenclature transgression as charged.  Not that it changes much ;-)

> I suggest you 
> look up that term in MS's sorry excuse for an operating system's user 
> manual...
> 
> > and use the loadpath
> > command so that gnuplot automatically points to a certain folder,
> > e.g., C:\Data\Spectroscopy\UV and makes it a working directory upon
> > starting?
> 
> You didn't find that because setting the working directory has nothing 
> to do with what these options do.  If you want to change the initial 
> working directory, you have to do that as part of the way you _start_ 
> gnuplot (e.g. on MS Windows it's a parameter of the desktop shortcut 
> settings).

Thank you; that's the obvious answer I was looking for (and should have figured it out myself...)

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setting a permanent new working gnuplot 4.6 directory under Windows? TonyG <tgozdz@gmail.com> - 2012-06-29 08:31 -0700
  Re: setting a permanent new working gnuplot 4.6 directory under Windows? Hans-Bernhard Bröker <HBBroeker@t-online.de> - 2012-06-29 21:23 +0200
    Re: setting a permanent new working gnuplot 4.6 directory under Windows? TonyG <tgozdz@gmail.com> - 2012-06-29 12:29 -0700

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