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Re: opening .gp file ...newbie user

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From	Jörg Buchholz <bookwood4new@freenet.de>
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Subject	Re: opening .gp file ...newbie user
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On 28.02.2018 14:48, david@artandconservation.net wrote:
> On Wednesday, 28 February 2018 13:39:34 UTC+1, Jörg Buchholz  wrote:
>> On 28.02.2018 12:11, 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?!
>>> 
>> Have a look into the .gp file via your favored Editor. The gnuplot
>> code is nearly plain English, so you can see which files you need
>> and what gnuplot will be done.
>> 
>> Then first start gnuplot and load the "gnuplot-code" via
>> 
>> load 'your-code-file-name'
>> 
>> If there are errors you can see them in the gnuplot console.
>> 
>> Jörg
> 
> My system is Windows 10 64bit. So I need to download and install
> another program to read the gp file, which contains instructions on
> which files I need to open. I was told that Gnuplot is very user
> friendly (being ironic of course) :)

I think on every computer is a program that can display simple ascii
text. So you don't must install every thing extra.

Jörg

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opening .gp file ...newbie user david@artandconservation.net - 2018-02-27 23:03 -0800
  Re: opening .gp file ...newbie user Karl Ratzsch <mail.kfr@gmx.net> - 2018-02-28 08:48 +0100
    Re: opening .gp file ...newbie user david@artandconservation.net - 2018-02-28 03:11 -0800
      Re: opening .gp file ...newbie user Colin Brough <Colin.Brough@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2018-02-28 11:52 +0000
      Re: opening .gp file ...newbie user Jörg Buchholz <bookwood4new@freenet.de> - 2018-02-28 13:39 +0100
        Re: opening .gp file ...newbie user david@artandconservation.net - 2018-02-28 05:48 -0800
          Re: opening .gp file ...newbie user Jörg Buchholz <bookwood4new@freenet.de> - 2018-02-28 15:28 +0100
          Re: opening .gp file ...newbie user Björn Lundin <b.f.lundin@gmail.com> - 2018-03-01 10:38 +0100
      Re: opening .gp file ...newbie user Dr Engelbert Buxbaum <engelbert_buxbaum@hotmail.com> - 2018-04-10 12:18 +0200

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