Received: by 10.224.105.205 with SMTP id u13mr9003006qao.6.1351549156286; Mon, 29 Oct 2012 15:19:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.236.91.99 with SMTP id g63mr3015329yhf.4.1351549156250; Mon, 29 Oct 2012 15:19:16 -0700 (PDT) Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!e17no13203326qar.0!news-out.google.com!gf5ni2985800qab.0!nntp.google.com!e17no13300304qar.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 15:19:16 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <8f63f2b6-6b58-4b3a-b25c-0c86bdf84cb1@4g2000yql.googlegroups.com> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=96.233.108.112; posting-account=aXvHDAoAAACxGpqfzAalYVozIuMdHcRf NNTP-Posting-Host: 96.233.108.112 References: <8f63f2b6-6b58-4b3a-b25c-0c86bdf84cb1@4g2000yql.googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <8dcef60d-b5fe-467f-b0d2-9429178c2bb5@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: plotting data directly from an Internet link? From: TonyG Injection-Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 22:19:16 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Xref: csiph.com comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot:1453 On Monday, October 29, 2012 4:00:37 PM UTC-4, James wrote: > On Oct 29, 1:15=A0pm, TonyG wrote: >=20 > > Is it possible to use an Internet link to some column-formatted data as= the data source for the 'file' part of the 'plot' command? >=20 >=20 >=20 > I don't know how to do it directly from gnuplot, but it would be easy >=20 > enough to use a command-line program like wget to copy the file to >=20 > your hard drive prior to calling gnuplot. >=20 >=20 >=20 > -- >=20 > Good luck, >=20 > James Thanks, James--but this is exactly the path I'm trying to avoid; I'm lookin= g, and still hoping, for a 'pure way' to pull this trick... --Tony