Re: svgalib

[A. S. Budden]

Thus spake John W. Eaton:
> On 22-Sep-2003, A. S. Budden <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> >   Terminal type set to 'linux'
> >   gnuplot>
> > 
> > 
> > However, the graph never appears.  All I can reasonably do is type
> > "exit" at which it quits and if I ctrl-alt-f1 back to octave I get:
> > 
> >   warning: broken pipe
> >   warning: connection to external plotter (pid = 25755) lost --
> >   warning: please try your plot command(s) again
> > 
> > 
> > Or something like that.
> > 
> > Can anyone help me with this problem please?
> > 
> > I'm using Redhat 9.0, with octave 2.1.40 and gnuplot-3.7.3-2 compiled
> > with --with-png --with-x --with-linux-vga.  Any other details I'm more
> > than happy to provide.
> 
> Does
> 
>   bash> echo "set term linux; plot sin(x);" | gnuplot
> 
> work on your system?

Does a similar thing to starting in octave -- [svgalib: allocated
virtual console #8] and on virtual console 8 I get the gnuplot window
but no graph is seen.

I guess this is a gnuplot problem then.  I don't suppose you have any
idea what's causing it do you?

Many thanks for your help,

Al



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