Change in March 8th by Bastian Maerkisch cvs branch(was FYI: 64 bit windows 7 sp1)

[Tatsuro M. <tma...@ya...>]

Hello

Change in March 8th by Bastian Maerkisch make avoid to fault the temporary files on windows 7
64 bit.
Current 4.4 cvs for gnuplot for windows
2011-03-10  Ethan A Merritt  <merritt@u.washington.edu>

	* src/plot2d.c(get_data) src/graphics.c(plot_boxes):
	variable color for plot style BOXXYERROR

gnuplot> load 'pm3d.dem'
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         "pm3d.dem", line 95: cannot write temporary file

At current 4.5 cvs version, this error does not happen.

If possible, please attach corresponding patch, which is attached to 4.5, to the 4.4 cvs branch for
the next official release.

Regards

Tatsuro

--- Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote:

> Hello
> 
> You are right.
> The gnuplot-4.4.3 binary suffer from the same fault after windows 7 update.
> 
> Thus your change for tmpfile() is important for many windows users.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Regards
> 
> Tasuro
> 
> 
> --- Bastian M将」rkisch  wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 
> > Von: "Tatsuro MATSUOKA" <tma...@ya...>
> > >Hello
> > >
> > >Since I have changed my computer at University to windows Home Premium 64 bit, 
> > >pm3d.dem fails due to temporary file error.
> > >
> > >Today I have update my windows 7 to the sp1.
> > >
> > >Temporary file error disappeared and all.dem can be executed normally.
> > >
> > 
> > Or maybe it has something to do with yesterday's change in CVS?
> > Are you saying that your build from March 8th also works?
> > According to several reports on  the net tmpfile() consistently fails 
> > on Vista, Windows 7 and probably any descently configured Windows XP
> > The reason is that for some unknown reason tmpfile() wants to create a 
> > file in C:\. But normal users don't have the appropriate rights to do that.
> >   
> >   Bastian
> >   
> > >Regards
> > >
> > >Tatsuro
> > >
> > 
> 
> 
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