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

[Ben Abbott]

On Apr 26, 2013, at 2:32 PM, Leo Liu wrote:

>  On 2013-04-26 13:33 +0800, Ben Abbott wrote:
> 
>> 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. 
> 
> Thanks for this information.
> 
> I speak to some folks on #gnuplot and they aren't convinced it is
> gnuplot's fault. Here is their suggestion or question:
> 
>  If the stream is opened to 'cat' instead of 'gnuplot' does the problem
>  still happen?
> 
> Leo

The easiest way to check is to save the plot stream to a file and then load it 
directly form gnuplot.  To do that ...

(1) create your plot
(2) type "drawnow ('x11', '/dev/null', false, 'debug.gp')" at Octave's prompt.
(3) Run gnuplot and load the file "debug.gp"

Ben