From bug-request at octave dot org Tue Jan 18 14:26:22 2005
Subject: Problem plotting from rldemo
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Eric_Smith at ieee dot org
Cc: bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 15:29:31 -0500

On 15-Jan-2005, Eric Smith <Eric-Smith at austin dot rr dot com> wrote:

| Octave support team:
| 
| Octave fails to generate gnuplot output during rldemo (also with 
| DEMOcontrol). The problem seems to be in the syntax of the commands 
| issued to gnuplot.  In the line below, the file/directory syntax is wrong.
| 
| save set "C:\cygwin\tmp/oct-22ffd4.2"
| 
| This should be "C:/cygwin/tmp/oct-22ffd4.2"

Do you have a TMPDIR environment variable?  Perhaps setting it to
C:/cygwin/tmp would help?

| More complete output included below.
| 
| Eric Smith
| 
| Octave output
| -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| esmith at MyPrecious ~
| $ octave
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| 
| octave:1> version
| ans = 2.1.49
| octave:2> rldemo
| 1
|  executing
| error: gnuplot not responding
| error: evaluating if command near line 57, column 5
| error: evaluating while command near line 55, column 3
| error: called from `gget' in file 
| `/usr/share/octave/2.1.49/site/m/octave-forge/
| plot/gget.m'
| error: evaluating argument list element number 1
| error: if: error evaluating conditional expression
| error: evaluating if command near line 44, column 5
| error: evaluating if command near line 43, column 3
| error: called from `grid' in file 
| `/usr/share/octave/2.1.49/site/m/octave-forge/
| FIXES/grid.m'
| error: called from `pzmap' in file 
| `/usr/share/octave/2.1.49/m/control/base/pzma
| p.m'
| error: near line 28 of file 
| `/usr/share/octave/2.1.49/m/control/util/run_cmd.m'
| error: evaluating if command near line 39, column 5
| error: evaluating while command near line 30, column 3
| error: called from `rldemo' in file 
| `/usr/share/octave/2.1.49/m/control/base/rld
| emo.m'
| octave:3>

It looks like the error is happening insode a function from Octave
forge.

jwe



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