From help-octave-request at che dot utexas dot edu  Tue Mar 21 23:38:28 1995
Subject: Re: PGPLOT with Octave? 
From: John Eaton <jwe at che dot utexas dot edu>
To: Dutt dot Vinayak at mayo dot EDU
cc: help-octave at che dot utexas dot edu
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 95 17:38:07 CST

vdp at us0 dot mayo dot EDU (Vinayak Dutt) wrote:

: This plotting stuff reminds me if there is any possibility of
: opening pipes in octave in coming releases. Then one to open a pipe
: to any arbitary plotting program and send and receive commands to
: it.

I just got the papers for some changes to add functions like popen(),
pclose(), etc., so they will be available in 1.2.

: This way one could just write scripts (.m files) to interface
: to any plotting program including gnuplot. Also this would mean that
: gnuplot interface does not have to be built into the binary itself.

That is certainly a possibility.

Thanks,

jwe