From maintainers-request at octave dot org Wed Feb  9 00:13:04 2005
Subject: Re: Reprise: external pager quitting kills standard error
From: "Dmitri A. Sergatskov" <dmitri at unm dot edu>
To: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
CC: Daniel J Sebald <daniel dot sebald at ieee dot org>, maintainers@octave.org
Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 23:15:38 -0700

John W. Eaton wrote:

> 
>   octave:1> page_output_immediately = 1
>   page_output_immediately = 1
>   octave:2> bogus
>   error: `bogus' undefined near line 2 column 1
>   octave:3> ones (1000,10)
>   warning: connection to external pager (pid = 4090) lost --
>   warning: attempting to finish pending computations...
> 
>   octave:3> bogus
> 
> I am typing 'q' to exit the pager as soon as the first page is
> displayed.  If I page forward to the end then back to the beginning
> (or anywhere) and then quit, things seem to work normally.  It is only
> when the connection to the pager is lost in this way that I see the
> error.
> 

Still not here (linux):

octave:1> page_output_immediately = 1
octave:2> bogus
error: `bogus' undefined near line 2 column 1
octave:2> ones (1000,10)
warning: connection to external pager (pid = 18655) lost --
warning: attempting to finish pending computations...
warning: broken pipe

warning: broken pipe
octave:2> bogus
error: `bogus' undefined near line 2 column 1
octave:2>

On Sparc/Solaris8 (displaying on the same linux box):

octave:1> page_output_immediately = 1
octave:2> bogus
error: `bogus' undefined near line 2 column 1
octave:2> ones (1000,10)
warning: broken pipe
warning: connection to external pager (pid = 24189) lost --
warning: attempting to finish pending computations...
octave:3> bogus
error: `bogus' undefined near line 3 column 1
octave:3>

(The difference here is that broken pipe message is the first one)

I will work to the other building where Sun is, and see if I get
any difference running it on CDE...

> So yes, there does seem to be a bug here.
> 
> jwe

Dmitri.
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