Re: Gnuplot scripts as output?

[Ben Abbott]

On Apr 1, 2010, at 7:02 AM, Tribo Laboy wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Carlo de Falco <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 
>> On 24 Mar 2010, at 15:20, forkandwait wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi
>>> 
>>> Is there a way to get the gnuplot commands issued by octave when
>>> calling the
>>> octave plot functions?  Ideally in a file for later perusal.
>>> 
>>> Best.
>> 
>> yes I think it's something like:
>> 
>> drawnow ("x11", "/dev/null", false, "gnuplotstream.gp")
>> 
>> see 'help drawnow'
>> c.
> 
> Hello!
> 
> I am also quite interested in the possibility to reuse gnuplot files
> created by octave.
> 
> On my windows version of Octave 3.2.3-2 from source-forge coming with
> gnuplot  4.3.0-2009-07-08 CVS patchlevel 0 octave-mingw32 I do the
> following:
> 
> x = 0:0.1:16; y = sin(x);
> plot(x,y)
> drawnow ("windows", "NUL", false, "gnuplotstream.plt")
> 
> as a result I get a "gnuplotstream.plt" file in the current dir, but
> when trying to open it in gnuplot, it does nothing. No error, nothing.
> I open the file in a text editor a found that some of the data is
> binary. Could that be the problem?
> 
> I would appreciate if someone sheds some light on this. Does it work
> on Linux and how to make it work on Win?
> 
> Regards

>From gnuplot, type ...

        load "gnuplotstream.plt"

If that doesn't work, I recommend you ask for help from one of the many options 
at the link below.

        http://www.gnuplot.info/help.html

Ben