Re: Octave fails to open pipe to pgnuplot

[Christoph Dalitz]

On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 01:05:31 -0600
address@hidden wrote:
>
> I have installed octave 2.1.49 and gnuplot using cygwin on windows 98.
> I downloaded the files from this site . Both
> octave and gnuplot seem to have installed ok and run fine individually .
> However when I try a plot command . I get and error (win32 error 6)
> saying "wait failed" and that a pipe could not be opened to pgnuplot.
> Could you please help me fix this problem if there is a fix.
>
AFAIK the Win9x/ME product line does not support pipes, which are only
implemented in WinNT/2000/XP (please correct me, if I am wrong).

Thus I would expect that the Octave/Gnuplot combination only works on
win32 systems with WinNT and above.

Christoph Dalitz




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