The argument created for gnuplot is still flawed, e.g. \tmp\L9LpBMXAW0/plot . I will dig a little deeper.

There are quite a few places that require modification. This diff isn't meant to be suitable as a patch, just an indicator of where thing need changes and what might be suitable.

For example, I have both TMP and TEMP environment variables set on my system, but I've long since forgotten whether I set up the former or whether it is set by default. I also have no idea is either is available on typical *nix systems.

And as I said earlier, to do the job right you'd have to get into moving the duplicate code into separate subroutines and using File::* modules in order to make properly cross-platform. But again, I don't know enough about these requirements to suggest anything beyond how to make it work on Win32.

Anyway, this might help you get something going. Good luck. 

--- \perl\site\lib\Chart\Gnuplot.pm     Wed Nov 05 15:21:26 2008
+++ Gnuplot.pm  Wed Nov 05 15:33:43 2008
@@ -15,8 +15,11 @@
     # Create temporary file to store Gnuplot instructions
     if (!defined $hash{_multiplot})     # if not in multiplot mode
     {
-        my $dirTmp = tempdir(CLEANUP => 1, DIR => '/tmp');
-        $hash{_script} = "$dirTmp/plot";
+#        my $dirTmp = tempdir(CLEANUP => 1, DIR => '/tmp');
+        my $dirTmp = tempdir(CLEANUP => 1, DIR => $ENV{TMP} || $ENV{T
+EMP} );
+#        $hash{_script} = "$dirTmp/plot";
+        $hash{_script} = $^O eq 'MSWin32' ? "$dirTmp\\plot" : "$dirTm
+p/plot";
+
     }

     # Default terminal: postscript terminal with color drawing elemen
+ts
@@ -819,7 +822,8 @@
 {
     my ($self) = @_;

-    my $pltTmp = "$self->{_script}/plot";
+#    my $pltTmp = "$self->{_script}/plot";
+    my $pltTmp = $^O eq 'MSWin32' ? "$self->{_script}\\plot" : "$self
+->{_script}/plot"
     open(PLT, ">$pltTmp") || confess("Can't write gnuplot script $plt
+Tmp");
     print PLT "set terminal $self->{terminal}\n";
     print PLT "set output \"$self->{output}\"\n";
@@ -1002,8 +1006,10 @@
         my $ydata = $self->{ydata};

         # Create temporary file to store Perl data
-        my $dirTmp = tempdir(CLEANUP => 1, DIR => '/tmp');
-        my $fileTmp = "$dirTmp/data";
+#        my $dirTmp = tempdir(CLEANUP => 1, DIR => '/tmp');
+        my $dirTmp = tempdir(CLEANUP => 1, DIR => $ENV{TMP} || $ENV{T
+EMP} );
+#        my $fileTmp = "$dirTmp/data";
+        my $fileTmp = $^O eq 'MSWin32' ? "$self->{_script}\\data" : "
+$dirTmp/data";
         open(DATA, ">$fileTmp") || confess("Can't write data to temp 
+file");

         # Process 3D data set
@@ -1215,8 +1221,10 @@
     {
         my $pt = $self->{points};

-        my $dirTmp = tempdir(CLEANUP => 1, DIR => '/tmp');
-        my $fileTmp = "$dirTmp/data";
+#        my $dirTmp = tempdir(CLEANUP => 1, DIR => '/tmp');
+        my $dirTmp = tempdir(CLEANUP => 1, DIR => $ENV{TMP} || $ENV{T
+EMP} );
+#        my $fileTmp = "$dirTmp/data";
+        my $fileTmp = $^O eq 'MSWin32' ? "$self->{_script}\\data" : "
+$dirTmp/data";
         open(DATA, ">$fileTmp") || confess("Can't write data to temp 
+file");

         # 2D data points

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In reply to Re^5: Chart::Gnuplot and Windows XP by BrowserUk
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