From bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Mon Dec 15 09:12:01 1997
Subject: How do I plot more than 30 lines
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Scott Bushman <bushman at spdc dot ti dot com>
Cc: bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 09:11:58 -0600

On 15-Dec-1997, Scott Bushman <bushman at spdc dot ti dot com> wrote:

: Bug report for Octave 2.0.9 configured for i586-redhat-linux-gnu

: 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.

This problem should be fixed in gnuplot 3.6beta releases.  You can get
gnuplot 3.6beta from cmpc1.phys.soton.ac.uk.

For gnuplot 3.5, I think you can fix the problem using the patch given
in the Octave manual, in the section `Actual Bugs We Haven't Fixed Yet'.

jwe