octave, gnuplot, and Mac OS X

[A S Hodel]

I've observed for several months now that the printeps, etc, scripts 
that I wrote for linux no longer work properly
under Mac OS X.  For example,

xx = linspace(-1,1);
yy = xx .^2 ;
plot(xx,yy)
printeps("myplot.eps");

dumps postscript to the screen and will not store the postscript to a 
file unless I change the script use the closeplot command:

function printeps(filename)
% function printeps(filename)
% replot screen plot to a file
% inputs:
%   filename: string:
% no argument checking done

  gset terminal postscript eps color
  eval(sprintf("gset output '%s'", filename));
  replot
  #gset terminal x11
  closeplot
endfunction

Do other mac users have similar behavior?  Is there a clue to what's  
causing the problem?  I'm using fink installed octave,
2.1.56, and fink installed gnuplot:

iMacG4:~/local_mfiles hodelas$ gnuplot --version
gnuplot 3.8j patchlevel 0



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