From owner-help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Wed Nov 27 09:18:30 1996
Subject: Re: working directory for gnuplot
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: "Dutt, Vinayak, Ph.D." <dutt dot vinayak at mayo dot edu> (Vinayak Dutt)
Cc: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 09:18:03 -0600

On 26-Nov-1996, Vinayak Dutt <dutt dot vinayak at mayo dot edu> wrote:

: #> I have the following problem when using the gplot command. If I
: #> change directory during the Octave session, then commands like:
: #> 
: #> gplot "myfile"
: #> 
: #> doesn't work because it seems that gnuplot doesn't track the change of
: #> directory. I ask if someone else has found this, and if there is a
: #> workaround/fix/patch.
: 
: I guess best fix for it would be to fix the octave cd command such that it
: would run cd command on gnuplot also if gnuplot was running.

This fix has already been implemented for 2.0 and seems to work
correctly in the test releases.

Thanks,

jwe