Ghostscript command line

[Martin.Hepperle]

Dear all,

while trying Octave on my new WIndows 7 installation I ran across a problem
with "unusual" path names.
My installation path contained special characters like "(", which broke the
"system()" call to execute ghostcript (the same happend with fltk as
backend, but I did not look into this as I prefer gnuplot for the moment).

I have fixed this in my installation by enclosing the gnuplot binary file
name in double quotes.
This occurs in the script file ".../plot/private/__ghostscript__.m" as
follows:

-----------------------------------------
  if (isempty (opts.binary))
    error ("print:no_ghostscript", "__ghostscript__.m: ghostscript is
required.");
  elseif (isempty (opts.output))
    cmd = sprintf ("\"%s\" %s", opts.binary, gs_opts);             % \"
added MH
  else
    cmd = sprintf ("\"%s\" %s -sOutputFile=%s", opts.binary, gs_opts,
opts.output);    % \" added MH
  endif
-----------------------------------------

While this works under Windows, I am not sure whether this will also work
under Linux.

Maybe one of the maintainers of the plot package can have a look at this.

Best Regards,
Martin



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