Re: more mxe testing

[Ben Abbott]

On Feb 22, 2013, at 8:30 AM, Mike Miller wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 8:14 AM, Ben Abbott wrote:
> 
>> On Feb 22, 2013, at 7:28 AM, Mike Miller wrote:
>> 
>>> octave:1> figure (1, "visible", false);
>>> octave:2> sombrero
>>> octave:3> drawnow ("windows", "/dev/null", false, "foo.gp")
>>> 
>>> Does not return, there is no foo.gp file created. Ctrl-C 3 times exits 
>>> Octave.
>> 
>> My guess is that Octave isn't able to run gnuplot?
>> 
>> From Octave's prompt, what is needed to run gnuplot from the command line?
>> 
>> On *nix, I'd just  ...
>> 
>>        system ("gnuplot")
>> 
>> What is needed for Octave running via wine?
> 
> Same, system ("gnuplot") works fine, gives me the gnuplot interactive
> shell, from which I can "plot sin(x)" fine, exit returns control back
> to Octave, no problems.
> 
> -- 
> mike

I assume the gnuplot is a windows/wine app?

My guess is that the pipe between Octave and gnuplot isn't working properly.

Ben