From help-octave-request at che dot utexas dot edu  Thu Aug 18 08:16:00 1994
Subject: Re: octave-1.0, SunOS 4.1.2
From: Robert dot Wilhelm at Physik dot TU-Muenchen dot DE
To: strube at physik3 dot gwdg dot de (Hans Werner Strube)
Cc: help-octave at che dot utexas dot edu
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 1994 15:15:44 +0200 (MET DST)

> 
> When octave-1.0 is built with gcc-2.5.8 and libg++-2.5.3 under SunOS 4.1.2:
> 
> 1) Any attempt to plot results in error messages
>    warning: plot: unable to open pipe to `gnuplot'.
>    This cannot be fixed by specifying gnuplot_binary="/abs/path/of/gnuplot".
> 
> 2) The output of "help" (without further arguments) does not stop at the
>    page boundary.
> 
> Under SunOS 5.3 (Solaris 2.3), an otherwise identical installation does not
> show these two effects.
> 

On my Sparcstation 2, octave-1.0 built with gcc-2.5.8, f2c 
and libg++-2.5.3 running  SunOS 4.1.2 
I cannot reproduce your errors.

All these things work fine.
Perhaps you have got a broken binary...

cu,
 Robert