How does print work?

[John W. Eaton]

On 17-Jan-2006, Sebastian Schubert wrote:

| Hi,
| 
| I use Octave 2.1.69 and corespondig octave-forge. I want to use print to
| save a plot. How do I use it? I tried the following:
| 
| x=1:20;
| y=2*x;
| plot(x,y)
| print("test.eps")
| 
| which gives me
| 
| warning: in fopen near line 55, column 3:
| warning: fopen: default open mode is now binary
| error: plot: can only plot in 2 or 3 dimensions
| error: plot: can only plot in 2 or 3 dimensions
| error: called from `print' in file
| `/usr/share/octave/2.1.69/site/m/octave-forge/plot/print.m'
| error: near line 3 of file `/tmp/sebschub/test.m'
| 
| and a 0 byte test.eps.  I tried putting it before plot, do a replot, even
| tried the line from help print. Didn't work.
| 
| Is it a bug or me?

It looks like a bug to me.  I think it is fixed in 2.1.72.

jwe



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