Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!204.52.135.9.MISMATCH!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!69.16.185.21.MISMATCH!npeer03.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: TonyG Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot Subject: Re: setting a permanent new working gnuplot 4.6 directory under Windows? Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 12:29:58 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 27 Message-ID: <5696c0a7-d8b7-425f-90a6-2fecafce0754@googlegroups.com> References: <339f621f-c42e-481c-8f6a-cd6f01fc3f3f@googlegroups.com> <4FEE00BA.3080701@t-online.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.171.143.241 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1340998198 6812 127.0.0.1 (29 Jun 2012 19:29:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 19:29:58 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <4FEE00BA.3080701@t-online.de> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=68.171.143.241; posting-account=aXvHDAoAAACxGpqfzAalYVozIuMdHcRf User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-Received-Bytes: 2190 Xref: csiph.com comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot:1231 On Friday, June 29, 2012 3:23:38 PM UTC-4, Hans-Bernhard Br=F6ker wrote: > On 29.06.2012 17:31, TonyG wrote: >=20 > > How exactly do I set the GNUPLOT_LIB parameter >=20 > That's not a parameters, it's an environment variable. =20 Yep, I plead guilty of a nomenclature transgression as charged. Not that i= t changes much ;-) > I suggest you=20 > look up that term in MS's sorry excuse for an operating system's user=20 > manual... >=20 > > 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? >=20 > You didn't find that because setting the working directory has nothing=20 > to do with what these options do. If you want to change the initial=20 > working directory, you have to do that as part of the way you _start_=20 > gnuplot (e.g. on MS Windows it's a parameter of the desktop shortcut=20 > settings). Thank you; that's the obvious answer I was looking for (and should have fig= ured it out myself...)