From owner-help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Mon Feb  3 20:58:04 1997
Subject: temp dir when plotting
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Control Systems Group <jvanderm at mail dot kaien dot com>
Cc: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1997 20:56:46 -0600

On  3-Feb-1997, Control Systems Group <jvanderm at mail dot kaien dot com> wrote:

| It seems every time I use plot command, there is a temp file named 
| oct-00802xea or something like that being written to the /tmp directory
| on my system. The only trouble is, I only got 3M available on that 
| partition. When that happens I have to either delete all those temp
| files or quit octave and restart.
| 
| Are there any way to specify a directory other than /tmp to write 
| those temp files to? If so, how?

You can use another directory by setting the environment variable
TMPDIR before starting Octave.

Or you can clear the temporary files by running the command
purge_tmp_files.

Unfortunately, it's not possible to make Octave run this command
automatically because Octave currently has no way of knowing when
gnuplot is finished with the files.

jwe