Re: wait_for_file ??

[Michael D. Godfrey]

 On 9/2/10 5:35 AM, bpabbott wrote:
> When I run Octave via ssh, I'm able to print output using both the 
> Gnuplot and FLTK backends without any need for the __wait_for_file__ 
> function.
Your experience differs from mine.  As an additional test I just tried 
ssh from my
Mac (Snow leopard) to a Fedora Linux server:
octave:1> plot(1:20)
octave:2> print ('gl2ps_t1x.pdf','-dpdf')
GPL Ghostscript 8.71: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
warning: print.m: Error: /undefinedfilename in (/tmp/oct-CowO18.eps)
Operand stack:

Execution stack:
   %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   
--nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   
--nostringval--   --nostringval--   false   1   %stopped_push
Dictionary stack:
   --dict:1158/1684(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:70/200(L)--
Current allocation mode is local
Last OS error: 2
, 'gl2ps_t1x.pdf'.
warning: print.m: No such file or directory, '/tmp/oct-CowO18.eps'.
octave:3>
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So, the problem still exists.  And needs to be corrected.

Michael