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Re: Format change converter to 5.0?

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Karl Ratzsch wrote:

> Am 01.04.2017 um 12:06 schrieb Olaf Schultz:
> 
>> But I have also a lot of other files coming from 4.3.... where not
>> only this lines needs to be converted because just two \042 have to
>> be removed in several lines.
>> 
>> And if I go and write an awk-script for that... Should have started
>> in the past with just saving empty plit-files to find the diff with
>> old/new version and what to be removed/changed. Maybe I will do
>> this...
>> 
>> Just to state: I like gnuplot, use it frequently since approx. 20
>> years, at home and in the job... but this tiny but nerving format
>> changes. Seem that I have to do it as on the job (there 4.6.1 is the
>> most actual version;-)... install several versions also at home:-(
>> 
>> Olaf
> 
> Well, it's sometimes a toss-up between adding new features with a
> sensible syntax, and keeping things backwards compatible. And I must
> say that the developers are trying very hard to do both
> 
> (Although I say the "set timefmt x" thing was more a bug, an
> undocumented feature should never have made it into the default
> saved plot files, imho.)


I've just gone back to look at the documentation for earlier versions.
The form of the "set timefmt" command emitted by "save" was incorrect all
the way back to version 4.0.   Version 4 was accepting it on input for
backwards compatibility with version 3, but there was no good reason to
emit it in output from "save".  It is a pity no one reported this bug at
the time - we could have fixed it 12 years ago.

   Ethan

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Format change converter to 5.0? Olaf Schultz <o.schultz@enhydralutris.de> - 2017-03-30 20:44 +0200
  Re: Format change converter to 5.0? Karl Ratzsch <mail.kfr@gmx.net> - 2017-03-31 05:14 +0200
    Re: Format change converter to 5.0? Olaf Schultz <o.schultz@enhydralutris.de> - 2017-04-01 12:06 +0200
      Re: Format change converter to 5.0? Karl Ratzsch <mail.kfr@gmx.net> - 2017-04-01 23:17 +0200
        Re: Format change converter to 5.0? Ethan A Merritt <EAMerritt@gmail.com> - 2017-04-01 15:16 -0700
          Re: Format change converter to 5.0? Olaf Schultz <o.schultz@enhydralutris.de> - 2017-04-02 09:48 +0200
        Re: Format change converter to 5.0? Ethan A Merritt <EAMerritt@gmail.com> - 2017-04-01 15:32 -0700

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