Re: gnuplot.exe hangs instead of exiting on Windows 7

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

On Wednesday, March 23, 2011 11:37:09 am Juhász Péter wrote:
> I didn't test with his previous build (I don't know where to get it).
> 
> However, I did test the current (03/23) build on a Vista system and it
> didn't exhibit this problem (it exited normally). It starts slowly,
> though: there is a 5-10 second delay at startup.
> 
> Péter Juhász

For what it's worth, I can no longer run the current Windows build
under linux+wine.   

gnuplot.exe hangs on entry, after printing 
  gnuplot changed the codepage of this console to 437 to match
  the graph window. Some characters might only display correctly
  if you change the font to a non-raster type.
I am dubious that setting the codepage to 437 is the right thing
to do under linux+wine (earlier builds seemed happy to accept
input from my UTF-8 environment), but I can't really test this
because it is hung.

wgnuplot.exe gives me a text window to type in, but if I try to plot
anything it exits with an error message   
   "This version of GLib requires NT-based Windows"
This message comes from libglib-2.0-0.dll

	Ethan

> On Wed, 2011-03-23 at 14:39 +0100, Bastian Märkisch wrote:
> > Tatsuro Matsuoka also noticed that console gnuplot has problems 
> > executing plotstyles.gnu (creating files). I don't see any of those 
> > problems here on my system - but then again my build is without libgd, 
> > pango/cairo etc. and my computers are running XP and Vista.
> > 
> > I cannot test his executables here since my virus scanner claims to find 
> > a trojan - but 41 scanners at virustotal.com disagree and don't find 
> > anything.
> > 
> > Have you, by any chance, tested his previous version (18th March)?
> > 
> >    Bastian
> > 
> > Am 23.03.2011 12:48, schrieb Peter Juhasz:
> > > Dear list,
> > >
> > > I've downloaded the latest gnuplot 4.5 CVS build from Tatsuro
> > > Matsuoka's site ( http://www.tatsuromatsuoka.com/gnuplot/Eng/winbin/
> > > ).
> > >
> > > The console executable gnuplot.exe displays a strange behavior:
> > > instead on exiting, it hangs.
> > > If I start it from the console then type "exit", it doesn't return to
> > > the command line.
> > > Even worse, it also hangs when I invoke it as "gnuplot.exe -V".
> > > (That's how I noticed this: one of my applications that uses gnuplot
> > > checks for its presence and up-to-date-ness with gnuplot -V, and
> > > because of this, it appeared to hang on startup. And I spent a few
> > > confused minutes trying to debug my application before realizing that
> > > gnuplot's at fault.)
> > >
> > > Péter Juhász
> 
> 
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Ethan A Merritt
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