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On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 22:17 +0100, Michael Haggerty wrote:
> Noel,
> 
> Thanks again for the patch, and the additional information about allowed
> characters.
> 
> It seems to me that *all* characters can get through if we use
> double-quoted strings and simply backslash-quote '"' and '\'.  So I just
> added a function in the gp.py module called double_quote_string() that
> does just this, and use this method in the definitions of the two
> get_base_command_string() methods that return filenames.  These changes
> are committed into the main branch of CVS.
> 
> This seems to work under Linux.  Would you please check whether they
> work under Windows, and whether you can see any other problems with this
> solution?

I cannot see any problems with the fix and it works for me under
windows. A big thanks on behalf of all people with funny characters in
their name.

Regards,
Noel

> Noel O'Boyle wrote:
> > On Windows, if your user name contains an apostrophe, the use of
> > temporary files causes an error, as gnuplot uses apropostrophes (i.e.
> > single quotes) to delimit the filename.

Please find attached an example program with extensive commenting
describing its behaviour. (I use WinXP on a 256MB old Dell laptop)

Noel

On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 21:29 +0100, Michael Haggerty wrote:
> Noel O'Boyle wrote:
> > In order to avoid the use of temporary files, I have tried to pass data
> > to gnuplot using the inline option in WinXP. This works fine for small
> > amounts of data but for larger amounts, the complete amount of data is
> > not passed.
> > 
> > For example, I tried to send data for 500 hundred (x,y) data points, but
> > only 355 lines were sent to gnuplot. It was possible to see this at the
> > interactive gnuplot prompt, and actually to plot the 355 data points by
> > entering 'e' (for "end" - part of gnuplot's inline data passing
> > mechanism, I suppose).
> > 
> > Is this a known feature of Windows/gnuplot-py/gnuplot? I wasn't sure how
> > to track down this bug - I can send you an example program that
> > reproduces this problem if you want.
> 
> I am not familiar with this problem.  It would help if you could send an
> example program.  At the least, I could try it under Linux to see if the
> same problem occurs there.
> 
> Michael
> 
> 
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