Thanks,
set terminal did the trick

cheers
M

On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 2:21 PM, John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Marvin Doyley <marvinpas@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> > > Hi there,
> > >
> > > I am planning to use gnuplot to plot some data that I have in org
> table.
> > > Everything is set-up correctly and gnuplot is installed my mac.
> > > Unfortunately, when I run the following org file I get a zero byte file
> --
> > > everything seems to run ok, except nothing is written to the output
> file.
> > > Does anybody know what I am doing wrong ?
> > >
>
> <snip>
>
> >
> > so if your gnuplot is like my gnuplot then "eps" is not a known terminal
> > type.  I'd suggest trying the following.  Also, notice that I changed
> > your "plot" line -- histograms are not intuitive in gnuplot.
> >
>
> <snip>
>
> >
> > #+begin_src gnuplot :var data=gnuplot-testing :file output.eps :exports
> both
> > set term postscript
> > set title "test"
> > set auto x
> > set style data histogram
> > set style fill solid border -1
> > set boxwidth 0.9
> > plot data using 2:xtic(1)
> > #+end_src
> >
>
> Shameless plug: this and more is available at the orgmode gnuplot
> babel documentation on Worg. Check it out if you're interested.
> --- Top level:
> http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/languages/ob-doc-gnuplot.html
> --- This in particular (generating eps files):
>
> http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/languages/ob-doc-gnuplot.html#sec-7_2
>