Re: Sorry -Yet another Gnuplot/Octave cygwin communication prob

[John W. Eaton]

On 19-Oct-2006, Eric S. Carlson wrote:

| 
| I do not doubt that this could very likely be a path issue. After killing a
| good day trying to add about every obvious directory to my cygwin path, I am
| still rather at wits end trying to track down why my plots will not fire up. 
| 
| Is there any difference between 2.9.9 and 2.1.73 about where temp files are
| located or how the gnuplot pipe is establshed? I am sure that the "Can't
| find the gnuplot window"  message is coming from gnuplot, but why should my
| path work fine for 2.1.73 and not for 2.9.9?
| 
| Again, when I type "system(gnuplot_binary)" at the octave command prompt
| after changing to any work directory on my hard drive, gnuplot fires right
| up. Could it be a process id issue?

How can we help if we don't know any of the details?

In what directory do you have gnuplot installed?

What is in your PATH?

etc.

jwe