From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Wed Nov 13 21:34:51 2002
Subject: Re: plot bug with redhat 8.0
From: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian dot org>
To: "Dmitri A. Sergatskov" <dima at coffee dot phys dot unm dot edu>
Cc: Bo Engstr?m <bo dot engstrom at telia dot com>,    "John W. Eaton" <jwe@bevo.che.wisc.edu>,    help-octave mailing list <help-octave@bevo.che.wisc.edu>
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 21:34:43 -0600

On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 08:23:48PM -0700, Dmitri A. Sergatskov wrote:
> I confirm the observation (7 plots, 8 keys) on octave 2.1.39 and 
> gnuplot 3.8i (cvs snapshot of Sept 11, 2002). Both compiled from
> scratch on RedHat 8.0.

Weird. As John remarked, this does of course work as it should on Debian.

What happens when you run the regression tests after building octave? Also,
try saving what is passed to gnuplot. I.e., after

edd at chibud:~> octave2.1
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octave2.1:1> gnuplot_binary
gnuplot_binary = gnuplot
octave2.1:2> gnuplot_binary ="tee /tmp/file.txt | gnuplot";
octave2.1:3> s=randn(10);
octave2.1:4> plot(s);
octave2.1:5> quit

I can see examine the file that was generated by interjecting tee(1):

edd at chibud:~> cat /tmp/fi
file.txt    filet3IzVI
edd at chibud:~> cat /tmp/file.txt
set data style lines
set nologscale
set nopolar
pl '/tmp/oct-P4VqHk' t "line 1",\
   '/tmp/oct-43qU7u' t "line 2",\
   '/tmp/oct-3yAwxF' t "line 3",\
   '/tmp/oct-kVAuWP' t "line 4",\
   '/tmp/oct-fejxp0' t "line 5",\
   '/tmp/oct-smPERa' t "line 6",\
   '/tmp/oct-1rK8il' t "line 7",\
   '/tmp/oct-IDmyFv' t "line 8",\
   '/tmp/oct-RXfC1F' t "line 9",\
   '/tmp/oct-kch2mQ' t "line 10"

quit


Dirk

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