Re: Where does PSPP keep histogram files (working with syntax files from terminal)

[John Darrington]

I was thinking of something along the same lines.  However it should
be thought about carefully.

It is not at all difficult to enter a command which might cause 20
windows to pop-up.  This would be exceedingly annoyinging.   Instead,
one could have all 20 graphics display in a single scrollable window.
But then would it be obvious which commands related to which graphics?
The corresponding commands could be written to the window as well, but
then before we know it, we've ended up writing a graphical user
interface!


Also, one can only show something in a window, if there is a
windowing system available.   What should happen if pspp is invoked in a
dumb terminal with no windowing system?  Ascii art graphics like with
Minitab in the 1980s?

J'


On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 09:32:24AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
     That is somewhat surprising behavior. I wonder whether we could come up
     with some new behavior that would be less surprising. Maybe, for example,
     if PSPP is invoked from a terminal, we should show the graphics in a
     window? There might be a better idea.
     
     On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 11:30 AM John Darrington <
     john@darrington.wattle.id.au> wrote:
     
     > If you have invoked pspp with no output file, then graphics have nowhere
     > to go.
     >
     > You need to say that you want output to be saved to a file.  For example
     > by specifying a file name with "-o my-file.txt"
     >
     >
     > J'
     >
     > On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 08:09:34PM +0300, Oren Ish-Shalom wrote:
     >      Hi,
     >      I???m using PSPP with syntax (*.sps files) from (a Linux) terminal.
     >      When I ask PSPP to draw a histogram with:
     >
     >      GRAPH
     >      /HISTOGRAM = NumDays_sensitive.
     >
     >      no error happens, but
     >      *no image file (*.png or other)was created*. What am I missing?
     >
     >      Thanks! Oren
     >
     >