From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Wed Mar 11 08:29:03 1998
Subject: problem with hold in gnuplot
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Mario Storti <mstorti at minerva dot unl dot edu dot ar>
cc: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 08:28:14 -0600

On 11-Mar-1998, Mario Storti <mstorti at minerva dot unl dot edu dot ar> wrote:

| When I issue  'hold on',  subsequent  'replot' commands give plots  or
| blank screens  in a rather random sequence.  Here is a transcript of a
| typical  session.  (I inserted  lines  containing '(plot)'  or '(blank
| screen)' depending on the result of the given command. )

I think this is a bug in gnuplot's X11 driver.

| Any hints?

Go back to the web page and check out the patch on the page

  http://www.che.wisc.edu/octave/mailing-lists/help-octave/1998/88

There is also a link to that from the News page.

Thanks,

jwe