MSWin issues holding up 4.4.rc1

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

This is a plea for assistance with serveral windows-specific bugs
still marked "open" on the bug tracker.

I was really hoping that we could resolve the major known glitches
in the windows terminal before putting out a 4.4 release candidate.
And in fact a couple of windows bugs were resolved over the summer
(emf + enhanced text now works, kudos to Ben Lindner).

Unfortunately several other remain.

   Bug #
 2848002   Ctrl+C crashes windows console build
 2807154   On Vista x64 plot keeps redrawing
 1952364   Windows driver draws points with dashed lines
 1952287   Windows driver draws dashed border for rectangles
 1609845   quota limits pipe size in pgnuplot

I very much suspect that the "quota limits" thing is out of date;
pgnuplot has been replaced by a newer console mode variant, right?

I've seen no other complaints about continual redrawing in Vista.
Can someone confirm whether this is reproducible?

The two dashed line problems may be the same bug, and are probably
trivial to fix if you have a windows build system to use for debugging.


-- 
Ethan A Merritt