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Re: Octave /tmp files
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niles |
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Re: Octave /tmp files |
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Tue, 05 Sep 95 19:33:02 -0400 |
>Whenever octave plots something, it creates a file /tmp/oct-[something],
>and this may be quite large.
>I think it is desirable that some garbage collection should be available
>for these files. Previous ones don't seem to be of the slightest use once
>a new plot has been started.
>From Octave's help -i
`purge_tmp_files'
Delete the temporary files created by the plotting commands.
Octave creates temporary data files for `gnuplot' and then sends
commands to `gnuplot' through a pipe. Octave will delete the
temporary files on exit, but if you are doing a lot of plotting
you may want to clean up in the middle of a session.
A future version of Octave will eliminate the need to use temporary
files to hold the plot data.
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Also, the environmental variable TMPDIR is the location where the tmp
files will be placed. Try setting it to a hard drive partition that
has more space than the one with /tmp.
Hope this helps,
Rick Niles.