Re: How to disable/ignore "pause"?

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

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 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.

> That's one single gnuplot platform where pause -1 can't detect
> that stdin was redirected (because Win32 GUI apps like wgnuplot don't
> *have* a stdin, so nothing to redirect), and therefore the usual method
> of short-circuiting pause -1 doesn't work.

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

> > I'm still using the "old" windows terminal. Perhaps wxwidgets behave be=
tter.
>
> IIRC it doesn't.  Wxwidgets only replaces the graph window, but not the
> text console window, nor the pause window.
>
> > I'm not piping (I guess).
>
> Correctly.  To pipe, you would have to use pgnuplot, not wgnuplot.

How can I compile gnuplot so that I would get pgnuplot instead of
wgnuplot? What's the main difference between the two variants?

Thanks a lot,
    Mojca