Re: How to disable/ignore "pause"?

[Mojca M. <moj...@gm...>]

On 4/20/06, Hans-Bernhard Br=F6ker wrote:
> Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> > On 4/18/06, Hans-Bernhard Br=F6ker  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 creatin=
g
> >> 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.

OK, thanks for the explanations. I'll compile the demo files on a
linux box then, write a note to the users of the module about that and
wait for the next & better version of the windows terminal for gnuplot
;)

Mojca