weird bug with plot/hold?

[John W. Eaton]

On 31-Jul-2007, Ares wrote:

| Hi all again
| 
| I have this dummy function:
| 
| = = = =
| function out = weird_bug(in)
| 
| for h = 1:100
|    plot(0,0)
|    hold on
| end
| 
| out = 1;
| = = = =
| 
| when I run it the 2nd time (without closing figure nor holding off/on)
| I get strange error messages from gnuplot like
| 
| gnuplot> e
|          ^
|          line 1200: invalid command

I think this might be the same as the bug reported in this thread:

http://www.nabble.com/Gnuplot-garbage-in-octave-prompt-tf3715276.html#a10398198

and I think it is actually a bug in gnuplot.  I also think it has
already been reported the the gnuplot developers, but I don't know the
status.

jwe