Re: Gaussian or other smoothing functions.

On Jun 1, 4:19=A0pm, Lewin Boehnke <n...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > strange you find it works. There are at least two errors that fail to
> > get past the gnuplot parser:
>
> > 1. smooth requires an option modifier such as csplines , it is not
> > valid on its own.
> > 2. the file name must come before all options
> > 3. mydata.dat must be in quotes otherwise it gets read as a command
> > and fails
>
> Reading the context of my post, you should realize that "smooth" does
not
> refer to any gnuplot keyword (I was not aware there is such keyword,
> otherwise I would of course have chosen an other word in my post) but to
> an -yet to be written- external script smoothing the data in mydata.dat.
> At the latest you should have realized that when you saw that smooth is
> _inside_ the quotes, which can by no means refer to any gnuplot keyword!
>
> Lewin Boehnke

OK, well you had the whole thing in double quotes as well so the
syntax could not be taken too literally. Your not knowing smooth was a
key word added to the confusion.

plot "< ./gaussian.sh datafile.dat"

will indeed read from stdin on unix/linux as do***ented in help load
and help batch.

Sorry my comments were harsher than necessary.