synchronization of octave with gnuplot?

[Thorsten Meyer]

Dear All,

I have a problem with the octave to gnuplot interface:

in an octave script I generate several gnuplot plots, export them to 
postscript and do some postprocessing on the resulting eps files with a 
awk script  that is started via system statements from octave.
Now it seems that octave does not wait for gnuplot to finish the 
individual plots. So at some point in the octave script, octave starts 
the awk postprocessor on an eps file that has not been generated yet. My 
workaround has been sleep statements between the plotting and the 
postprocessing commands in the script. However, depending on the number 
and complexity of the plots it can take up to several seconds for 
gnuplot to catch up. Obviously, I would not like to add "sleep(10)" to 
all my plot sequences just to make sure.

My question: is there a way to actively synchronize octave with gnuplot, 
i.e. force octave to wait until gnuplot has finished a particular plot 
command?

Thanks in advance


Thorsten Meyer



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