Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?Q?J=c3=b6rg_Buchholz?= Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot Subject: Re: opening .gp file ...newbie user Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2018 15:28:41 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 46 Message-ID: References: <152a9eba-b75c-4547-9e01-67d1fbd01a26@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2018 14:28:40 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: reader02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="c0672533f003e7abaa33476c0f0a60d6"; logging-data="17341"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19HuXTzj0bqCbEVae2ICRXBntRadEBw7GA=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.6.0 In-Reply-To: <152a9eba-b75c-4547-9e01-67d1fbd01a26@googlegroups.com> Content-Language: en-GB Cancel-Lock: sha1:dza0yQHPWJdMQfxQ/sOMgwHBXUY= Xref: csiph.com comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot:3898 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