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Re: Axis labelling with many decimals

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From Dieter Britz <dieterhansbritz@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot
Subject Re: Axis labelling with many decimals
Date Fri, 23 Aug 2013 08:54:39 +0000 (UTC)
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On Thu, 22 Aug 2013 09:45:19 -0700, sfeam wrote:

> Dieter Britz wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 16:32:10 -0700, sfeam wrote:
>> 
>> [...]
>>>> OK, so here is what I did, and what gnuplot said:
>>>> 
>>>> ...
>>>> set xrange [0.87845758:0.87845769]
>>>> set xtics  0.87845760, 0.00000005, 0.87845770 scale 2, 1 set mxtics 5
>>>> set ytics 1.1863, 0.0001, 1.1873 set xtics rotate by 90 right ...
>>>> 
>>>>          line 0: undefined variable: right
>>> 
>>> So I take it this is a very old version of gnuplot?
>>> If so, the most straightforward solution is to get a newer version.
>> 
>> OK, so I downloaded the up to date package, untarred it, and I get all
>> this:
>> 
>> 
>> aclocal.m4  configure.in   GNUmakefile  Makefile.in     PGPKEYS    
>> term BUGS        configure.vms  INSTALL      Makefile.maint  pm3d
>> tutorial ChangeLog   Copyright      INSTALL.gnu  man            
>> PORTING VERSION CodeStyle   demo           install-sh   missing        
>> README      win config      depcomp        lisp         mkinstalldirs  
>> README.1ST config.hin  docs           m4           NEWS           
>> share configure   FAQ.pdf        Makefile.am  PATCHLEVEL      src
>> 
>> Now what do I do? I work under Suse 12.2 Linux. Do I simply type in
>> ./install-sh ?
> 
> The command in question was introduced some time prior to the release of
> gnuplot version 4.6 (January 2012).  A quick search indicates that there
> are plenty of SuSE packages for gnuplot 4.6, so you should be fine using
> one of those.
> 
> If you do want to build from current CVS source, the minimal set of
> commands is
>   /prepare
>  ./configure
>   make
> 
> 
>> Are there any traps, possible missing dependencies etc?
> 
> It is likely that the output from ./configure will indicate additional
> development packages that would need to be installed in order to include
> support for specific terminal types or other features.  In other words,
> you need to install many more packages to build gnuplot from source than
> you need for simply running a pre-built executable.
> 
> 	Ethan

I have V. 4.4 running. What you write seems to imply
that there is an easier way to update this. What might
that be? Is there an rpm that would do the job in one
hit?

-- 
Dieter Britz

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Axis labelling with many decimals Dieter Britz <dieterhansbritz@gmail.com> - 2013-08-15 08:28 +0000
  Re: Axis labelling with many decimals Dieter Britz <dieterhansbritz@gmail.com> - 2013-08-15 08:41 +0000
  Re: Axis labelling with many decimals sfeam <sfeam@users.sourceforge.net> - 2013-08-15 08:53 -0700
    Re: Axis labelling with many decimals Dieter Britz <dieterhansbritz@gmail.com> - 2013-08-19 09:54 +0000
      Re: Axis labelling with many decimals sfeam <sfeam@users.sourceforge.net> - 2013-08-19 10:47 -0700
        Re: Axis labelling with many decimals Dieter Britz <dieterhansbritz@gmail.com> - 2013-08-20 08:21 +0000
          Re: Axis labelling with many decimals sfeam <sfeam@users.sourceforge.net> - 2013-08-20 16:32 -0700
            Re: Axis labelling with many decimals Dieter Britz <dieterhansbritz@gmail.com> - 2013-08-22 09:00 +0000
              Re: Axis labelling with many decimals Karl <mail.kfr@gmx.net> - 2013-08-22 13:29 +0200
              Re: Axis labelling with many decimals sfeam <sfeam@users.sourceforge.net> - 2013-08-22 09:45 -0700
                Re: Axis labelling with many decimals Dieter Britz <dieterhansbritz@gmail.com> - 2013-08-23 08:54 +0000
                Re: Axis labelling with many decimals sfeam <sfeam@users.sourceforge.net> - 2013-08-23 08:32 -0700

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