From bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Mon Dec 15 08:54:49 1997 Subject: How do I plot more than 30 lines From: Scott Bushman To: bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Date: Mon, 15 Dec 97 08:54:04 -0600 Bug report for Octave 2.0.9 configured for i586-redhat-linux-gnu Description: ----------- I realize this is really not an octave problem, but .... How do I plot more than 30 lines in a single plot? Is there a version of gnuplot which supports longer line length? In essense, octave generates a line which is > 1024 char in length and gnuplot chokes on it. Repeat-By: --------- This works fine: octave:1> plot (rand(10)) octave:2> This will fail (you may have to change 30 to another number to get the line length long enough): octave:2> plot (rand(30)) gnuplot> pl "/tmp/oct-27198kaa" t "line 1", "/tmp/oct-27198laa" t "line 2", "/tmp/oct-27198maa" t "line 3", "/tmp/oct-27198naa" t "line 4", "/tmp/oct-27198oaa" t "line 5", "/tmp/oct-27198paa" t "line 6", "/tmp/oct-27198qaa" t "line 7", "/tmp/oct-27198raa" t "line 8", "/tmp/oct-27198saa" t "line 9", "/tmp/oct-27198taa" t "line 10", "/tmp/oct-27198uaa" t "line 11", "/tmp/oct-27198vaa" t "line 12", "/tmp/oct-27198waa" t "line 13", "/tmp/oct-27198xaa" t "line 14", "/tmp/oct-27198yaa" t "line 15", "/tmp/oct-27198zaa" t "line 16", "/tmp/oct-27198Aaa" t "line 17", "/tmp/oct-27198Baa" t "line 18", "/tmp/oct-27198Caa" t "line 19", "/tmp/oct-27198Daa" t "line 20", "/tmp/oct-27198Eaa" t "line 21", "/tmp/oct-27198Faa" t "line 22", "/tmp/oct-27198Gaa" t "line 23", "/tmp/oct-27198Haa" t "line 24", "/tmp/oct-27198Iaa" t "line 25", "/tmp/oct-27198Jaa" t "line 26", "/tmp/oct-27198Kaa" t "line 27", "/tmp/oct-27198Laa" t "line 28", "/tmp/oc! ! t-27198Maa" t "line 29", "/tmp /oct-2719" ! ! ^ can't open data file line 0: (No such file or directory) gnuplot> 8Naa" t "line 30"" ^ line 0: invalid command octave:3> Any help would be appreciated. Scott Bushman ----------------------------------------------------------------- Scott Bushman, Ph.D. Member of Technical Staff Phone: (972) 995-1157 Advanced Process Control Fax: (972) 995-1916 Semiconductor Process and Device Center Email: bushman at spdc dot ti dot com Texas Instruments Incorporated 13570 North Central Expressway, MS 3701 MSG (TI internal): SGB Dallas, TX 75243 Pager: (972) 598-0966 ----------------------------------------------------------------- My gnuplot: [3]bushman at mercury:1058> gnuplot G N U P L O T Linux version 3.5 patchlevel 3.50.1.17, 27 Aug 93 last modified Fri Aug 27 05:21:33 GMT 1993 Copyright(C) 1986 - 1993 Thomas Williams, Colin Kelley Send comments and requests for help to info-gnuplot at dartmouth dot edu Send bugs, suggestions and mods to bug-gnuplot at dartmouth dot edu Terminal type set to 'x11' My Octave: Configuration (please do not edit this section): ----------------------------------------------- uname output: Linux mercury.spdc.ti.com 2.0.30 #1 Wed Jun 4 15:02:33 EDT 1997 i686 unknown configure opts: --prefix=/usr --with-g77 --enable-dl --enable-shared --enable-rpath --enable-lite-kernel --host i586-redhat-linux Fortran compiler: g77 FFLAGS: -O F2C: F2CFLAGS: FLIBS: -lf2c -lm -L/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-unknown-linux-gnulibc1/2.7.2.3.f.1 -lm -lgcc -lc CPPFLAGS: INCFLAGS: -I/usr/include -I/usr/include/octave-2.0.9 C compiler: gcc, version 2.7.2.3.f.1 CFLAGS: -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -O2 -m486 -s CPICFLAG: -fPIC C++ compiler: c++, version 2.7.2.3.f.1 CXXFLAGS: -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -fno-implicit-templates -O2 -m486 -s CXXPICFLAG: -fPIC LDFLAGS: -g LIBFLAGS: -L/usr/lib RLD_FLAG: -Xlinker -rpath -Xlinker /usr/lib CXXLIBS: -lstdc++ -lm -L/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-unknown-linux-gnulibc1/2.7.2.3.f.1 -lstdc++ -lm -lgcc -lc -lgcc TERMLIBS: -lncurses LIBS: LEXLIB: LIBPLPLOT: LIBDLFCN: DEFS: -DOCTAVE_SOURCE=1 -DSEPCHAR=':' -DSEPCHAR_STR=":" -DUSE_GNU_INFO=1 -DUSE_READLINE=1 -DF77_APPEND_UNDERSCORE=1 -DOCTAVE_LITE=1 -DSIZEOF_SHORT=2 -DSIZEOF_INT=4 -DSIZEOF_LONG=4 -DHAVE_ALLOCA_H=1 -DHAVE_ALLOCA=1 -DSTDC_HEADERS=1 -DHAVE_DIRENT_H=1 -DTIME_WITH_SYS_TIME=1 -DHAVE_SYS_WAIT_H=1 -DHAVE_ASSERT_H=1 -DHAVE_CURSES_H=1 -DHAVE_FCNTL_H=1 -DHAVE_FLOAT_H=1 -DHAVE_GRP_H=1 -DHAVE_LIMITS_H=1 -DHAVE_MEMORY_H=1 -DHAVE_NAN_H=1 -DHAVE_NCURSES_H=1 -DHAVE_PWD_H=1 -DHAVE_STDLIB_H=1 -DHAVE_STRING_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_PARAM_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_RESOURCE_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_STAT_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_TIME_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_TIMES_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_TYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_UTSNAME_H=1 -DHAVE_TERMCAP_H=1 -DHAVE_TERMIO_H=1 -DHAVE_TERMIOS_H=1 -DHAVE_UNISTD_H=1 -DHAVE_VARARGS_H=1 -DHAVE_ATEXIT=1 -DHAVE_BCOPY=1 -DHAVE_BZERO=1 -DHAVE_DUP2=1 -DHAVE_ENDGRENT=1 -DHAVE_ENDPWENT=1 -DHAVE_EXECVP=1 -DHAVE_FCNTL=1 -DHAVE_FORK=1 -DHAVE_GETCWD=1 -DHAVE_GETEGID=1 -DHAVE_GETEUID=1 -DHAVE_GETGID=1 -DHAVE_GETGRENT=1 -DHAVE_GETGRGID=1 -DHAVE_GETGRNAM=1 -DHAVE_GETHOSTNAME=1 -DHAVE_GETPGRP=1 -DHAVE_GETPID=1 -DHAVE_GETPPID=1 -DHAVE_GETPWENT=1 -DHAVE_GETPWNAM=1 -DHAVE_GETPWUID=1 -DHAVE_GETUID=1 -DHAVE_GETWD=1 -DHAVE_LSTAT=1 -DHAVE_MEMMOVE=1 -DHAVE_MKDIR=1 -DHAVE_MKFIFO=1 -DHAVE_ON_EXIT=1 -DHAVE_PIPE=1 -DHAVE_PUTENV=1 -DHAVE_RENAME=1 -DHAVE_RINDEX=1 -DHAVE_RMDIR=1 -DHAVE_SETGRENT=1 -DHAVE_SETPWENT=1 -DHAVE_SETVBUF=1 -DHAVE_SIGACTION=1 -DHAVE_SIGPENDING=1 -DHAVE_SIGPROCMASK=1 -DHAVE_SIGSUSPEND=1 -DHAVE_STAT=1 -DHAVE_STRCASECMP=1 -DHAVE_STRDUP=1 -DHAVE_STRERROR=1 -DHAVE_STRNCASECMP=1 -DHAVE_TEMPNAM=1 -DHAVE_UMASK=1 -DHAVE_UNLINK=1 -DHAVE_USLEEP=1 -DHAVE_VFPRINTF=1 -DHAVE_VSPRINTF=1 -DHAVE_WAITPID=1 -DHAVE_PROGRAM_INVOCATION_NAME=1 -DHAVE_LIBDL=1 -DHAVE_DLOPEN=1 -DHAVE_DLSYM=1 -DHAVE_DLERROR=1 -DHAVE_DLCLOSE=1 -DWITH_DL=1 -DWITH_DYNAMIC_LINKING=1 -DHAVE_LIBM=1 -DHAVE_FINITE=1 -DHAVE_ISNAN=1 -DHAVE_ISINF=1 -DHAVE_ACOSH=1 -DHAVE_ASINH=1 -DHAVE_ATANH=1 -DHAVE_ERF=1 -DHAVE_ERFC=1 -DHAVE_ST_BLKSIZE=1 -DHAVE_ST_BLOCKS=1 -DHAVE_ST_RDEV=1 -DHAVE_TZNAME=1 -DHAVE_GR_PASSWD=1 -DRETSIGTYPE=void -DSYS_SIGLIST_DECLARED=1 -DHAVE_SYS_SIGLIST=1 -DHAVE_POSIX_SIGNALS=1 -DHAVE_GETRUSAGE=1 -DHAVE_TIMES=1