<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I’ve installed Kst 2.0.x - A data viewing program, Revision fb63718, from the kst-2.0.8-binary.dmg. It is running on a MacBook Pro Mid 2012 with OS X Yosemite Version 10.10.3.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’m running the binary located inside the kst2.app file from the Terminal, and it works fine when I set up and use a .kst file. However, it doesn’t produce what I expect when I don’t use a .kst file. For example, the —help: Examples/Data sources and fields: Plot all data in column 2 from data.dat. —> kst data.dat -y 2 does not produce what I expect.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This is my input .dat file</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Menlo;" class="">x y</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Menlo;" class="">-5 6.25</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Menlo;" class="">-4 4</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Menlo;" class="">-3 2.25</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Menlo;" class="">-2 1</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Menlo;" class="">-1 0.25</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Menlo;" class="">0 0</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Menlo;" class="">1 0.25</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Menlo;" class="">2 1</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Menlo;" class="">3 2.25</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Menlo;" class="">4 4</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Menlo;" class="">5 6.25</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">From within the subdirectory containing simple.dat I issued the command:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Menlo;" class="">kst2 simple.dat -y 2</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">and got</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><img height="660" width="832" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" apple-inline="yes" id="1E7ED545-FEF8-4788-B351-759BEA6245CA" src="cid:CC10A16F-82A1-4906-9D0D-D39102E3C573" class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The x-axis is as I expected, but the y-axis is not, and there is no plot of the entries in column 2.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Likewise issuing the command:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Menlo;" class="">kst2 simple.dat -x 1 -y 2</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">produces</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><img height="659" width="833" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" apple-inline="yes" id="23D47254-D6AD-43BA-8024-A1C1D3D2CCF4" src="cid:FAB989C1-192B-4C17-A331-DC608D1A2F47" class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Again the columns are placed correctly but values from the file are ignored and there is no plot.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">What I expected in this case was something like</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><img height="660" width="834" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" apple-inline="yes" id="1CBB6480-FEA0-4BBD-9322-B6AC136D485E" src="cid:EAF4620F-1697-4F1A-818E-021A53C6E361" class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">with at least the correct x and y axis range and maybe x’s marking the data points.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I also removed the first line containing x y from simple.dat and this made no difference.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">What am I doing wrong? Do the examples from —help require a .kst file to work correctly? </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class="">
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