Re: gnuplot 4.5

[Leo Butler]

On Wed, 11 Nov 2009, address@hidden wrote:

< thanks for the help - I got the right gnuplot to work now.
< 
< However, I still have a problem understand which version of gnuplot
< octave uses. On startup, it says
< 
< gnuplot_binary
< ans = gnuplot
< 
< When I run
< 
< which gnuplot
< 
< on my terminal, I get
< 
< /my/home/usr/bin/gnuplot
< 
< which is exactly the version 4.5 executable I want octave to use.
< However, if I don't call gnuplot_binary("/my/home/usr/bin/gnuplot"),
< octave uses the gnuplot 4.2 executable from /usr/bin ! I thought I
< could avoid that problem by adding
< gnuplot_binary(/my/home/usr/bin/gnuplot") to my .octaverc , but I ran
< into another problem: whichever variable gnuplot_binary writes to,
< this variable is deleted by "clear all". Most of my scripts start with
< clear all, so all the plotting in those scripts is done in gnuplot 4.2
< again!
< 
< Can someone explain this behaviour to me and maybe suggest an easy way
< to deal with it? -
 
Try

clear -x gnuplot_binary

in place of clear all.

For more, look at

help clear

Leo

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