Re: How to disable/ignore "pause"?

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Monday 17 April 2006 02:05 pm, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> I'm sorry for a stupid question (probably not the most appropriate for
> this list, but I didn't find the answer yet): how can I ignore
> "pause"? I would like to call gnuplot from an external program (with
> "set terminal whatever", has to produce a couple of graphics and then
> exit quitely) and "I can't afford to hire a robot" to keep pushing
> "enter" on pauses triggered with "pause -1"? Pause is good for
> interactive terminals, but not when writing images into a file.

This is a strange question, because "pause -1" should return
immediately if the input is from a script.
How, exactly, are you feeding your commands to gnuplot?
And if you are piping the commands from an external program,
why is it listening to the keyboard even if you *were* to 
hire a robot key-presser?



Off-the-wall suggestions, since I don't really understand how
your problem is created.

1) Don't put any pause statements in your automated scripts to begin with

2) sed -e 's/pause -1//' < script | gnuplot

3) gnuplot script < /bin/true


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Ethan A Merritt
Biomolecular Structure Center
University of Washington, Seattle WA