From bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Thu Jan 6 22:36:33 2000 Subject: Octave hangs when using help after plotting From: Robin To: "'bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu'" Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 22:37:19 -0600 (CST) I don't have emacs so octave-bug doesn't work [It should work with other editors if your EDITOR environment variable is set. --jwe] My system is a Dell PIII Dimension XPS-T450 with Win98, 128MB RAM. I have installed the packages usertools.exe cygless332.bin.tar.gz octave-2.0.13-i386-pc-cygwin32.tar.gz pipe-gnuplot.exe from ftp://ftp.che.wisc.edu/pub/octave/BINARIES/gnu-win32, today, as directed in README.gnu-win32-install. I also have wgnuplot 3.7 installed. All binaries are in my PATH. All GNU stuff is vanilla, out-of-the-box with no local configurations. The problem - typical session; bash.exe-201.$ octave Octave, version 2.0.13 (i386-pc-cygwin32). Copyright (C) 1996, 1997,1998 John W. Eaton. This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. For details, type `warranty'. octave.bin:1> gnuplot_binary = "pipe-gnuplot c:/bin/gnuplot3.7/wgnuplot.exe" octave.bin:2> x=[0:10]; octave.bin:3> plot(x,sin(x)); [graph plots ok] octave.bin:4> help plot WARNING: terminal is not fully functional - (press RETURN) [press RETURN, then space until 100% of the help is displayed using less. Pressing space again (or 'f') hangs the terminal and it needs to be killed by the system. The terminal error appears to be immaterial as this happens no matter which terminal type I set it to. However, if I type 'help plot' without attempting to plot anything all is ok, but plotting, then closing the plot still results in a hang] Hope you can make use of this, and thanks for providing an alternative to the ever more expensive Matlab. Robin Wardle. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. Octave's home on the web: http://www.che.wisc.edu/octave/octave.html How to fund new projects: http://www.che.wisc.edu/octave/funding.html Subscription information: http://www.che.wisc.edu/octave/archive.html -----------------------------------------------------------------------