From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Thu Jun 12 18:53:03 2003 Subject: Re: Limited number of figures? From: Paul Kienzle To: "John W. Eaton" Cc: Ian MacPhedran , Steven D Ratts , help-octave@bevo.che.wisc.edu Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 19:52:30 -0400 John W. Eaton wrote: >On 12-Jun-2003, Ian MacPhedran wrote: > >| On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, John W. Eaton wrote: >| >| > Although >| > it might be tempting, I think that for Octave to modify PATH by >| > looking at the value of gnuplot_binary is probably not a good >| > solution. >| >| Agreed, but ... the user can always set the path before starting octave. > >Yes, but my point was in response to a question about arranging for >things to "just work" if the user sets gnuplot_binary, which seems >difficult to do without some ugly kluge like resetting PATH based on >the value of gnuplot_binary. So telling the user that he may also >need to set his PATH appropriately in addition to setting >gnuplot_binary is not entirely satisfactory... > On the other hand, the new gnuplot is likely to be in the same bin directory as gnuplot_x11, no? In which case the user only needs to modify PATH, and not set gnuplot_binary in octave. Could we put that hint with the help for gnuplot_binary? Paul Kienzle pkienzle at users dot sf dot net ------------------------------------------------------------- Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. Octave's home on the web: http://www.octave.org How to fund new projects: http://www.octave.org/funding.html Subscription information: http://www.octave.org/archive.html -------------------------------------------------------------