gnuplot limits?

[John W. Eaton]

On 13-Nov-2007, Eric Chassande-Mottin wrote:

| hi,
| 
| the following code which plots 1000 random segments in [0,1]^2
| fails on my computer, from time to time with the error
| 
| gnuplot> 0.805198 0.770516
|          ^
|          line 14158: invalid command
| 
| is that a known issue due to gnuplot limitation (number of lines
| in a plot is limited) or to a bug in the data transmission from
| octave to gnuplot when the data volume is large?
| 
| the large N, the more likely the code fails.

It's a bug in gnuplot.  It's been reported and (I think) fixed.

jwe