I noticed that gnuplot is configured with the flag 
--enable-backwards-compatibility in file gnuplot-5.2.2-1.cygport downloaded 
from 
http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/cygwin/x86/release/gnuplot/gnuplot-5.2.2-1-src.tar.xz.
 This flag causes the following test case to behave differently under Cygwin 
and Ubuntu:

ubuntu$ echo 'print "$0"' > x
ubuntu$ gnuplot -c x 1
$0

cygwin$ echo 'print "$0"' > x
cygwin$ gnuplot -c x 1
1

More specifically the flag --enable-backwards-compatibility enables the 
backward compatible expansion of dollar sign expressions to command line 
arguments in gnuplot source files. Is there any specific reason that Cygwin 
chooses to enable this flag?

Regards,
George Prekas

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