Re: Broken pipe, and Timeout:gnuplot is not ready

[Michael Grossbach]

malik martin wrote:
> hi
> i'm getting some wierd results when trying to load matlab files into
> version 2.1.73. i've downloaded the octave-forge version which i was
> told i needed.
> any ideas how to fix this?:
>
> octave:4> figure1_02
> warning: broken pipe -- some output may be lost
> warning: unrecognized escape sequence `\m' -- converting to `m'
> warning: unrecognized escape sequence `\m' -- converting to `m'
> octave:5> Timeout: gnuplot is not ready

Are you using a windows version of Octave? Could your problem then be 
related to a windows-style path? Does using a cygwin-style path solve 
the problem?

Regards, Michael