Re: How to disable/ignore "pause"?

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Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> On 4/18/06, Hans-Bernhard Bröker  wrote:
>> Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>>> I have a gnuplot.bat with
>>>     c:\path-to-wgnuplot.exe %*
>> Calling that batch file gnuplot.bat instead of wgnuplot.bat is creating
>> smoke screen that hides the crucial detail: that you're doing this on MS
>> Windows.
> 
> I'm sorry that I forgot to mention that. I wasn't aware that gnuplot
> in windows behaves differently from the rest of the terminals in this
> respect.

It's not the terminal that behaves differently --- it's the console that 
handles text I/O for the gnuplot command line.  Windows originally 
didn't have the notion of a console program at all, back when gnuplot 
was ported to this platform (16-bit Windows 3.x).  So the people back 
then had to create their own poor-man's equivalent of xterm: the 
wgnuplot text window.  This is a graphical window handling non-graphical 
text input and output.  But it has no connection to the concept of a 
stdin or stdout channel.

I've been working on and off on a re-write of this part of the Windows 
port, to use a genuine Win32 console instead of our home-grown one.  If 
that ever bears fruit, it'll solve this problem.  Until then, you can't 
wgnuplot to pipe in or out.

> So is there any remedy for that? Could I set any variable which will
> explicitely tell gnuplot to ignore pauses?

No.

> How can I compile gnuplot so that I would get pgnuplot instead of
> wgnuplot? 

You can't.  pgnuplot is not a variant of wgnuplot, it's built as a 
separate, small program that communicates with wgnuplot.

If you want a fully console-compatible gnuplot on Win32, you have to get 
the Cygwin binary.  The delivered package of that uses and requires X11, 
but you can also build a console-only one by disabling X11.