Problems with gnuplot from marcports

[Jason Swails]

Or you can just live in the terminal :).  I find it faster than navigating
Finder, and the "open" utility Apple added to BSD is quite handy.

On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 9:45 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org>wrote:

>
> On Jan 5, 2011, at 11:22, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote:
>
> > TextEdit added an "txt" extension to the file, so, the file qhdmmint.gplt
> was saved as qhdmmint.gplt.txt in the disk. This was why gnuplot didn't find
> it! Now, erasing the "txt" and moving qhdmmint.gplt.txt to qhdmmint.gplt I
> got my graph normally. The weird thing is that qhdmmint.gplt.txt appeared
> without the "txt"extension in Finder, that was why I was confused with the
> names...
>
> Yes, the Finder hides filename extensions by default. One of the first
> things I do on my Macs is disable that feature. It may help Grandma be less
> scared of her computer, but it does not help people who know how computers
> work. To disable this feature, choose Preferences from the Finder menu in
> the menubar, click Advanced, and check the checkbox "Show all filename
> extensions."
>
>
>


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Jason M. Swails
Quantum Theory Project,
University of Florida
Ph.D. Graduate Student
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