Re: [OS X] octave cannot start a properly working gnuplot

[Ben Abbott]

On Apr 26, 2013, at 1:07 PM, Leo Liu wrote:

> On 2013-04-26 02:17 +0800, Dmitri A. Sergatskov wrote:
>> If you do
>> octave> system(gnuplot_binary)
>> 
>> do you get gnuplot startup windows and the prompt?
> 
> I managed to get the gnuplot window up from octave:
> 
>  1. hist(rand(1,1000)) ## X11 app (2.7.4) launched but no plot window
>  2. Quit the X11 app   ## X connection broken
>  3. hist(rand(1,1000)) ## invalid command warning
>  4. subsequent hist(rand(1,1000)) has no warning of invalid command
> 
> If I restart octave I have to repeat the above steps.
> 
> Here is the session log:
> 
> ======== session ========
> 
> octave> hist(rand(1,1000))
> octave> X connection to /tmp/launch-m4LDZ8/org.macosforge.xquartz:0 broken 
> (explicit kill or server shutdown).
> 
> octave> hist(rand(1,1000))
> octave> 
> gnuplot> nset obj 1;
>         ^
>         line 0: invalid command
> 
> 
> octave> 
> 
> ======== session ========
> 
> Leo

Leo, I suspect this is the same gnuplot bug as we found below.

        
http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/Bug-in-script-for-plotting-tt4649637.html#none

I don't recall if this was reported to gnuplot's development team. 

Ben