From bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Wed Oct 28 12:08:26 1998
Subject: Re: closeplot failing after popen or system(xv,0,async)
From: john <john at arrows dot demon dot co dot uk>
To: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
cc: bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 18:07:40 +0000 (GMT)

> | I said:
> | 
> |    octave:1> sombrero(10)
> |    octave:2> popen("sort", "w");
> |    octave:3> closeplot
> | 
> | causes octave to wait, probably until the "sort" is terminated.
> 
> To which JWE said:
>
> Please try the following patch.
>  -- and the patch followed....

I have now tried the patch, and it works for me.

What I was actually trying to achieve by the "closeplot" was to reset
gnuplot to some known state. Is this sufficient reason to create a
"greset" command that would send reset to gnuplot? Or is there already a
method to reset gnuplot?

Thanks,
John Smith