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From: [e-mail] (Brian Ladd)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: GNUPLOT and Emacs Calc
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Date: 10 Sep 92 13:31:15 GMT
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Yesterday I installed Calc mode for Emacs on my system; no hassles beyond
the usual for a system where xemacs is the executable name for emacs (the
Makefile made some wrong assumptions, but I fixed that quickly enough).
Running through the tutorial and manual, I am impressed by all the things
Calc can do.

There is a cloud around this silver-lining, that is true: I cannot get Calc
to invoke GNUPLOT properly. I downloaded GNUPLTPM.ZOO from ftp-os2 this
week, installed it, and it runs famously. When Emacs starts it in a shell,
however, gnuplot.exe just sits there.

I hear you, "Mellon-head, gnuSHELL.exe is what you need to launch to run
GNUPLOT on OS/2." Okay, I say, I changed the name of the program to be run
for gnuplot to gnushell. The session for gnushell is launched but is
immeadiately terminated and Calc reports it could not start the gnuplot
process.

Any one have Calc running and calling gnuplot/PM? Anyone have any ideas?
The packages can be integrated through data files, but hitting "g f" to see
a graph is soooo convenient. Thanks in advance -bcl

Brian C. Ladd
Graduate Student & *NIX Court Jester
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Disclaim what? Ask yourself: Was anything actually said here? Bet UNC
thinks not!