Re: tmp gets full when plotting many images

[Daniel J Sebald]

John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 26-Mar-2007, Przemek Klosowski wrote:
>
> | For instance, would it work to keep a record of file
> | names, and delete files which were used in a previous plot upon
> | creating a subsequent one?
>
> I think it is possible for gnuplot to still be processing a previous
> plot when Octave starts a new plot.  I don't see how to avoid that
> race condition.  Since it looks like it is possible to send all the
> data in the pipe, I think that's the best solution.

Here's another option as a couple people suggested on the gnuplot list, but 
unfortunately I'm not sure it is portable... only of use in unix based systems: 
 stuff an "rm" at the end of the plot command so that gnuplot removes the file 
afterward:

sprintf("!rm -f %s\n", tmpfile)

Dan