Re: broken pipe with coloured scatter3

[Paul Campbell]

There is an FAQ on gnuplot.
I had a problem that went away when I ran it on linux.
The version on my windows machine must have been down level.

On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 1:35 PM,  <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello!
>
>
> I'm having troubles with coloured sactter3. If I do:
>
> x=rand(100,1)
> y=rand(100,1)
> z=rand(100,1)
>
> scatter3 (x, y, z);
> scatter3 (x, y, z, [], 'b');
> scatter3 (x, y, z, z);
> scatter3 (x, y, z, 50);
> all is fine (just the spotsize is not changed) but with:
>
> scatter3 (x, y, z, 50, [], 's');
> scatter3 (x, y, z, 50, []);
>
>  I get this multiple times:
> gnuplot> 0.148456192084311 0.601135888459943 0.284623384973014
>         ^
>         line 400: invalid command
>
>
> gnuplot> e
>         ^
>         line 400: invalid command
>
> with:
>
> gnuplot_binary ("tee octave.gp | gnuplot ");
>
> I get:
>
> tee: standard output: Broken pipe
> tee: write error
>
> and some time later the gnuplot errors again.
>
> Same problem with:
>
> cat octave.gp | gnuplot
>
> Inside gnuplot:
>
> load "octave.gp"
>
>  "#000000"lc rgb "#000000"lc rgb "#000000" ;
>                                                                               
>                                           ^
>         "octave.gp", line 3088: duplicated arguments in style specification
>
>
> There's a thread about some similar issue:
> https://www-old.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/bug-octave/2007-May/002308.html
> assuming it's a gnuplot problem but since the other scatter3 commands work 
> I'm not sure about that.
> I also sometimes get a proken pipe error when quitting less showing the 100 
> random numbers.
> I've octave 3.0.5, gnuplot 4.3 patchlevel 0, LFS
> octave.gp.bz2 is attached. I wonder why there are so many splot commands in 
> it. It seems to me it's supposed to plot the data mutiple times.
>
> Many thanks for any help or hints.
>
> Lynx
>
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