Re: octave+gnuplot on pc-linux console

[Joao Cardoso]

Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> 
> Paul,
> 
> That cannot work as on the console: either program wants to "own" the
> pseudo-terminal, but they cannot own it both at the same time. More detailed
> discussions of this will be in the archives of this list.
> 
> A somewhat cumbersome workaround is to have Octave write the data to a temp
> file, and to manually plot it in Gnuplot on another pseudo-terminal.

for draft (draft!) graphics, try

 gset terminal dumb
 plot(sin(1:10))

> 
> Regards, Dirk
> 
> --
> According to the latest figures, 43% of all statistics are totally worthless.

so, what is the (recursive) significance of the message? :-)

Joao



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