Re: [Gretl-devel] OS-dependent behavior of plots: thanks and a proposal

On Fri, 25 Sep 2015, oleg_komashko(a)ukr.net wrote: > So it would be convenient if gretl > have something outputting gnuplot > version Maybe this can help function scalar gnuplot_version(void) string tmpfile = "(a)dotdir/gpv.txt" !gnuplot --version > @tmpfile string s = readfile(tmpfile) scalar ret sscanf(s, "gnuplot %g", ret) return ret end function a = gnuplot_version() print a Moreover, debian has a package called "gnuplot5". I don't know if ubuntu users can grab that, or if it's been incorporated into ubuntu already. ------------------------------------------------------- Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali (DiSES) Università Politecnica delle Marche (formerly known as Università di Ancona) r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it http://www2.econ.univpm.it/servizi/hpp/lucchetti -------------------------------------------------------