Re: wait_for_file ?? [print via pipes - help testing on Windows?]

[Michael D Godfrey]

On 09/16/2010 06:58 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:

I no longer have any errors with testing the printing on MacOS 10.6.4.

For complete functionality it is necessary to have pstoedit, fig2dev (from TransFig), and epstool installed.

I'm unable to do any testing for Windows. So it would be appreciated if a Windows user can test this changeset.

There's been some recent changesets that have effected my results, so I suggest pulling the current sources, and a build fresh.

My tip is ...

	http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/88687577519f

Ben

I installed pstoedit and got:
octave:1> test_printing_20100916
warning: function name `test_printing' does not agree with function file name `/data/d/src/octave/hg/test_printing_20100916.m'
Xlib:  extension "NV-GLX" missing on display ":1175.0".
backend is fltk
print fltk-aifm  -daifm
warning: print.m: epstool binary is not available.
error: fltk_backend: filename should be fid
warning: print.m: No such file or directory, '/tmp/oct-U1DIe9.eps'.
error: called from:
error:   /data/d/src/octave/hg/__fltk_print__.m at line 193, column 7
error:   /data/d/src/octave/hg/__fltk_print__.m at line 121, column 14
error:   /d/src/octave/hg/octave/scripts/plot/print.m at line 344, column 12
error:   /data/d/src/octave/hg/test_printing_20100916.m at line 65, column 9
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I will look for epstool.
Michael