Re: Octave fails to open pipe to pgnuplot

[B Thomas]

Hi,
Sorry about sending the personal mail (do forward it to the mailing list
if appropriate).

I am using  :

octave-2.1.49-2.tar.bz2 
octave-headers-2.1.49-2.tar.bz2
octave-forge-2003-06-02-1.tar.bz2
gnuplot-3.7.3-3.tar.bz2

All were downloaded form ftp.octave.org/pub/octave/cygwin.
Setup.exe from www.cygwin.com and setup.ini from the above site
were used to install the software.

It may be pertinent to note that I get the same error (wait failed,
can not open pipe) when I try help -i . So octave can not connect
to info either.
Perhaps something is wrong with the cygwin install (which is a few
months old). But most other programs seem to work well in cygwin
, even if I do for instance "ls -lR | more "

Here is a sample error message  I get on doing 

My input :

x=[-5:0.1:5]
y=sin(x)
plot(x,y)

Octave spits out :

158541 [main] octave 153395 fork_copy: user/cygwin data pass 2 failed,
0x10300000..0x10F47000,done 0, windows pid 4294723853, Win32 error 8
3093487 [proc] octave 153395 wait_subproc: wait failed. nchildren 1,
wait 1000, Win32 error 6
3131911 [proc] octave 153395 wait_subproc: nchildren 1, event[1] 0x110,
pchildren 3209284 [proc] octave 153395 wait_subproc: pid 243443,
dwProcessId 4294723853, hProcess 0x110, progname
'C:\CYGWIN\BIN\OCTAVE-2.1.49.EXE
erro: plot: unable to open pipe to 'pgnuplot'
error: called from 'plot' in file
'/usr/share/octave/2.1.49/m/plot/plot.m'


If I do help -i I get something similar. Note however from the bash 
command line if I do pgnuplot it does start up gnuplot.

Hope this help . Do let me know if there is any other information 
I can provide.

sincerely
bt

On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 12:52:58PM -0600, John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 28-Oct-2003, robert Macy <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> | I installed octave (using the binary download provided) on
> | my Windows 98 without this problem.  
> 
> Precisely which "binary download provided"?  Which version?  There are
> several different versions out there.
> 
> jwe



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