octave-2.0.11 [gnu]plot bug?

[John W. Eaton]

On 20-Apr-1998, (Ted Harding) <address@hidden> wrote:

| Using octave-2.0.11, the following distils an apparent bug:
| 
| octave:1> t=(1:100)'; U=rand(size(t)); V=10*rand(size(t));
| octave:2> plot(t,V,"-r",t,U,"-b")
| octave:3> plot(t,V,"-b",t,U,"-r")
| octave:4> plot(t,V,"-r",t,U,"-b")
| octave:5> plot(t,V,"-b",t,U,"-r")
| octave:6> plot(t,U,"-b",t,V,"-r")
| octave:8> plot(t,U,"-r",t,V,"-b")
| 
| On my Linux system, the first 4 plots (lines 2-5) show a single curve only.
| The fifth (line 6) shows both curves, likewise the sixth (line 7).
| 
| Comments? (I suspect a gnuplot bug).

What terminal type are you using?  If it is X11, then I suspect the
bug that I fixed in that terminal driver.  My patch is available here:

  http://www.che.wisc.edu/octave/mailing-lists/help-octave/1998/88

jwe