Re: printeps error question

[Gerald Ebberink]

I personally would advice to use
printeps("sin")
since sin is also a command

On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 07:26 -0800, John B. Thoo wrote:
> Hi.  I have a printing script provided by AS Hodel that used to work 
> fabulously for me, but now, after not having used it in a while, gives 
> an error.
> 
> The script is:
> 
> function printeps(filename)
> % function printeps(filename)
> % replot screen plot to a file
> % inputs:
> %   filename: string:
> % no argument checking done - this means YOU mark!
> 
>    gset terminal postscript eps color
>    eval(sprintf("gset output '%s'", filename));
>    replot
>    #gset terminal x11
>    closeplot
> endfunction
> 
> 
> but this is what I get:
> 
> octave:1> t = -1:0.01:1;
> octave:2> plot (t, sin (t))
> octave:3> printeps (sin)
> error: sin: too few arguments
> error: evaluating argument list element number 1
> octave:3>
> 
> What am I doing wrong?
> 
> TIA.
> ---John.
> 
> 
> 
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