Re: missing pdf terminal; was --> [changeset] print.m (matlab compatibility)

[Marco Atzeri]

--- Mer 11/3/09, John W. Eaton  ha scritto:

> Da: John W. Eaton 
> Oggetto: Re: missing pdf terminal; was --> [changeset] print.m (matlab 
> compatibility)
> A: "Ben Abbott" 
> Cc: "octave maintainers mailing list" <address@hidden>
> Data: Mercoledì 11 marzo 2009, 07:49
> On 11-Mar-2009, Ben Abbott wrote:
> 
> | ok,ok ... I had confused myself. I borrowed the code
> from  
> | __gnuplot_ginput__.m not from gnuplot_drawnow.
> | 
> | Does cygwin not have this capability?
> 
> I think Cygwin does have mkfifo, but using Cygwin is
> probably not the
> typical way of using Octave on a Windows system now.
> 
> Or do you mean that we could maybe borrow the mkfifo code
> from Cygwin?
> I don't see an implementation of mkfifo in gnulib, and it
> is
> apparently missing from MinGW, so my guess is it is
> nontrivial to make
> it work on Windows.  But maybe someone else knows
> more?
> 
> jwe
> 

Cygwin mkfifo should be here:

http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/winsup/cygwin/syscalls.cc?rev=1.513&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup&cvsroot=src

I am not an expert of internal cygwin structure,
so I can not guess the real complexity behind

Regards
Marco