gnuplot on windows crashes in non-interactive mode

[Juhász P. <pet...@gm...>]

Dear gnuplot developers,

I noticed something problematic while upgrading to 4.4.2 on a Windows
box I'm administrating.

If gnuplot is in non-interactive mode, as in executing a script, any
unknown command in the script causes it to die a horrible flaming death
instead of a clean termination that it should do. (More precisely, it
brings up the "This application has encountered a problem and needs to
close" dialog.)

With test.plt containing anything that is not valid syntax, 'gnuplot
test.plt' crashes. 'gnuplot -e "whatever"' works, too. This is 100%
reproducible on the two Windows XP machines I've tried, however, I
couldn't reproduce it in a Vista virtual machine.

I've used the binary 4.4.2 distribution from Sourceforge, but it seems
that the 4.5 distribution from
http://www.tatsuromatsuoka.com/gnuplot/Eng/winbin/ does the same.

Péter Juhász