Bug report for Octave 2.1.73 in conjunction with gnuplot 4.2

[John W. Eaton]

On  5-Sep-2008, Zidek, Herbert wrote:

| Hi Ben,
| 
| > Am I correct in inferring that your example works with an
| > earlier version of gnuplot?
| 
| You're right.  That's the reason I observed the difference.
| 
| 
| > I believe Octave 2.1.73 should work with gnuplot 4.0. Perhaps
| > the problem is a change in gnuplot (anyone?).
| 
| It is working with gnuplot 4.0.  And I found (a reason for) the
| failure.  Or let's say, an indication.
| 
| TMPDIR=/tmp      octave < xx.m :   works,
| TMPDIR=/var/tmp  octave < xx.m :   does NOT work!!!!!!!!!
| 
| with the appended xx.m (the same script that you already
| got).  (At least in my system.)
| 
|   You've probably a good overview in order to identify the cause
| why octave and gnuplot are using $TMPDIR, /tmp, or whatever in an
| irreproducible manner, depending on the input data (number of
| plots, legend, ...), and not communicating in detail with each
| other.
| 
|   For now I'm happy, but the setting of $TMPDIR is a workaround
| only.

2.1.73 is obsolete and completely unsupported.  I strongly recommend
that you upgrade to the current stable version of Octave, 3.0.2.

jwe