From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 91494 invoked by alias); 9 Apr 2018 17:50:43 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 91483 invoked by uid 89); 9 Apr 2018 17:50:42 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=Hx-spam-relays-external:ESMTPA X-HELO: vsmx011.vodafonemail.xion.oxcs.net Received: from vsmx011.vodafonemail.xion.oxcs.net (HELO vsmx011.vodafonemail.xion.oxcs.net) (153.92.174.89) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Mon, 09 Apr 2018 17:50:41 +0000 Received: from vsmx003.vodafonemail.xion.oxcs.net (unknown [192.168.75.197]) by mta-5-out.mta.xion.oxcs.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE9C53E0AD5 for ; Mon, 9 Apr 2018 17:50:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from Gertrud (unknown [91.47.59.44]) by mta-7-out.mta.xion.oxcs.net (Postfix) with ESMTPA id CA884300759 for ; Mon, 9 Apr 2018 17:50:36 +0000 (UTC) From: Achim Gratz To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: gnuplot dollar sign and command line arguments References: <1759739558.1598055.1516390377125.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <1759739558.1598055.1516390377125@mail.yahoo.com> Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2018 17:50:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <1759739558.1598055.1516390377125@mail.yahoo.com> (George Prekas via cygwin's message of "Fri, 19 Jan 2018 19:32:57 +0000 (UTC)") Message-ID: <87muycp8ur.fsf@Rainer.invalid> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-VADE-STATUS: LEGIT X-SW-Source: 2018-04/txt/msg00078.txt.bz2 George Prekas via cygwin writes: > More specifically the flag --enable-backwards-compatibility enables > the backward compatible expansion of dollar sign expressions to > command line arguments in gnuplot source files. Is there any specific > reason that Cygwin chooses to enable this flag? To be backwards compatible to existing gnuplot scripts, perhaps? This flag was in fact set by the previous maintainer and I've not heard any good reason why I should change it. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ Samples for the Waldorf Blofeld: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html#BlofeldSamplesExtra -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple