Subject: GNUPLOT An Interactive Plotting Program v.3.2
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To whoever reads this message!
I have taken the above email address from the cover of the GNUPLOT 3.2 manual
in the hope that the recipiant can help me.
As part of my final year project here at Essex University, U.K. I am intending
on using Gnuplot to display various data that my 'C' program will produce.
What I would like to be able to do is execute Gnuplot from within my 'C' code
so that it can be used as an interactive part of the program bringing up a
Gnuplot window displaying any data set chosen by the user.
I am currently not sure if this is possible (although I have a few basic ideas)
so I would appreciate you telling me how to go about doing it (with some
example code maybe). I know there is a library routine system() which allows
commands to be executed as if they were typed from the shell. When using this command and piping in a datafile, the Gnuplot window only appears very briefly
despite the use of 'pause -1' in the datafile.
I am currently using SUN SPARCstations running an X-window environment with
