Re: wait_for_file ?? [print via pipes - help testing on Windows?]

[Marco Atzeri]

--- Lun 20/9/10, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> ha scritto:

> On Sep 19, 2010, at 5:53 PM, Michael
> D Godfrey wrote:
> 
> > On 09/19/2010 12:10 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:
> >> I've pushed a changeset that eliminates the "ans
> =" stuff.
> >> 
> >> Ben
> >> 
> > This looks OK. And, here are my current results
> running the
> > test_printing script locally. The output is attached
> as test04.out.
> > 
> > I also tried :
> > octave:1> plot(1:200)
> > octave:2> title("hello")
> > octave:3> print("test04_latex.pdf", "-dpdflatex")
> > octave:4> print("test04_plain.pdf", "-dpdf")
> > octave:5> quit
> > ==================
> > The resulting plots are attached.  These look OK
> to
> > me.  Are they what you expect?
> > 
> > I do not fully understand the remaining errors when
> running the test_printing
> > script.  They may in part be due to
> -append.  What should this do?
> > 
> 
> The -append option literally appends another page to an
> existing ps or pdf file.
> 
> Ben


on latest tip, 

$ hg tip
changeset:   11001:2ab8cc6dcced
tag:         tip
user:        Ben Abbott <address@hidden>
date:        Sun Sep 19 20:47:46 2010 -0400
summary:     Special treatment activepositionproperty = outerposition for 
gnuplot.

on cygwin-1.7.7 with gcc4.3.4 
make stop at

make[3]: Entering directory `/pub/hg/octave_build/doc/interpreter'
../../run-octave -f -q -H -p ../../../octave/doc/interpreter --eval 
"geometryimages ('voronoi', 'eps');"
panic: Segmentation fault -- stopping myself...
attempting to save variables to `octave-core'...
save to `octave-core' complete
warning: broken pipe -- some output may be lost
warning: broken pipe -- some output may be lost
warning: broken pipe -- some output may be lost


Marco