From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Fri May 28 11:26:19 1999
Subject: Re: Save a plot to .ps
From: Daniel Heiserer <Daniel dot Heiserer at bmw dot de>
To: jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu,         "help-octave@bevo.che.wisc.edu" <help-octave@bevo.che.wisc.edu>
Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 18:03:43 +0200

jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu wrote:
> 
> On 28-May-1999, Daniel Heiserer <Daniel dot Heiserer at bmw dot de> wrote:
> 
> | diary('parseme')
> | gshow terminal
> | diary off
> | ==> parse the diary-file
> |
> | I see it will work. Thanks
> 
> Hmm.  This doesn't work for me, because Octave does not see the output
> from gnuplot:
> 
>   $ octave
>   GNU Octave, version 2.0.14 (i686-pc-linux-gnu).
>   Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 John W. Eaton.
>   This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
>   For details, type `warranty'.
> 
>   octave:1> diary ('parseme')
>   octave:2> gshow terminal
>   octave:3>
>           terminal type is x11
> 
>   diary off
>   octave:4> quit
>   $ cat parseme
>   octave:2> gshow terminal
>   octave:3> diary off
> 
> The message from gnuplot goes directly to stdout or stderr, so Octave
> doesn't capture it and send it to the pager or put it in the diary
> file.

What about the system command. Does it work in a sub-shell
or does it work in the current shell?
If it works in the current shell we could submit a "scrip" (typescript)
and reread it.

Why not implementing a two way connection and making gnuplots
output available for octave.
Would have nice features for other things too.
The simpliest way would be to pipe gnuplots
stdout/stderr through "|tee" and reread the tee-file
if requested.


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