From bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Wed Oct 28 12:16:45 1998
Subject: Re: closeplot failing after popen or system(xv,0,async)
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: john <john at arrows dot demon dot co dot uk>
Cc: bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 12:16:17 -0600 (CST)

On 28-Oct-1998, john <john at arrows dot demon dot co dot uk> wrote:

| > | 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?

Octave 2.0.14 will have a `graw' function, so you can do the
following:

  graw ("reset\n");

If you want to try it now, you can get the latest test release from
the Octave ftp site.

jwe