fopen doesn't return when opening a fifo!!

[Thomas Treichl]

David Bateman schrieb:
> Basically, I think these function must work under the default terminal
> types on Windows, Unix and Mac systems to be truly useful. And so hope
> that with an upgrade to gnuplot 4.2.3 that this is possible.

I'm running Gnuplot 4.2.3 and the latest hg snapshot on MacOSX. The ginput 
function works fine with the X11 backend of Gnuplot, thanks.

Just for info if somebody will ask that question in the future: ginput doesn't 
work with the AquaTerm backend of Gnuplot because Gnuplot->AquaTerm doesn't 
support anything that has to do with mouse input (no zoom and so...). The result 
with an AquaTerm backend then looks like

   [x,y,b] = ginput (1)
     x = 0
     y = 0
     b = -1

and with a middle mouse button click and the X11 backend it looks like

   [x,y,b] = ginput (1)
     x =  6.4600
     y =  6.0756
     b =  2

Thomas