X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:from:to:subject:references:date:in-reply-to :message-id:mime-version:content-type; q=dns; s=default; b=ofLRC k4tfNYwoxMQM4hXSIxHLIpbmVEi4HK7dE84q0uT0TFz7SnF+arrbgovdbmNR3S01 Gc0x06fqwjiCgpl1wDOret2PG1hAq6R+hfsXFYyiKTv1KkzI7y2Q1wQ5pIRdiIWb kTr6UCjpIvsPsdVbR3jEfWt2r1u/F7kAhhyTa0= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:from:to:subject:references:date:in-reply-to :message-id:mime-version:content-type; s=default; bh=67AFQieS05T gJ8pb09FDNJiq7F4=; b=I4w14LSr0+Q0ZNOi7JPqb7cGJWmpxKDOC5FOs1a/xii tGpfOxqzrGF99Stm1fUMVvaRe7qgwfSQYsEl3cFH1zaZaVTo/k2AkokCLw3sHPDK WG15B/PcXo9mmKOShZjIC01FIILdegBKQ4hy619tx9hCl28QC8wCVBvkgEsF/5mw = Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com 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 From: Achim Gratz To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: gnuplot dollar sign and command line arguments References: <1759739558 DOT 1598055 DOT 1516390377125 DOT ref AT mail DOT yahoo DOT com> <1759739558 DOT 1598055 DOT 1516390377125 AT mail DOT yahoo DOT com> Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2018 19:50:36 +0200 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 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