Re: Limited number of figures?

[Paul Kienzle]

John W. Eaton wrote:

> On 12-Jun-2003, Ian MacPhedran <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> | On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, John W. Eaton wrote:
> | 
> | >  Although
> | > it might be tempting, I think that for Octave to modify PATH by
> | > looking at the value of gnuplot_binary is probably not a good
> | > solution.
> | 
> | Agreed, but ... the user can always set the path before starting octave.
>
> Yes, but my point was in response to a question about arranging for
> things to "just work" if the user sets gnuplot_binary, which seems
> difficult to do without some ugly kluge like resetting PATH based on
> the value of gnuplot_binary.  So telling the user that he may also
> need to set his PATH appropriately in addition to setting
> gnuplot_binary is not entirely satisfactory...
On the other hand, the new gnuplot is likely to be in
the same bin directory as gnuplot_x11, no?  In which
case the user only needs to modify PATH, and not
set gnuplot_binary in octave. Could we put that hint
with the help for gnuplot_binary?

Paul Kienzle
address@hidden




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