[Gnuplot-bugs] gnuplot under cygwin

[Henry F. <HEN...@sa...>]

I'm having serious problems running gnuplot under cygwin in Windows 
XP. I installed the full release of cygwin including the x-server as 
per instructions. That is, I selected the unix line feeds at the 
start of the install, which went normally. When I try to run gnuplot, 
I follow the following procedure:

	1. launch X-windows
	2. launch cygwin
	3. type: export DISPLAY=:0.0
	4. type gnuplot

After launching gnuplot I find that the execution is very erratic. 
Sometimes (quite often really) I get the following error message:

$ gnuplot
         19 [main] gnuplot 66200 child_copy: linked dll data write copy failed,
0x689000..0x68CF40, done 0, windows pid 65276, Win32 error 487

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Terminal type set to 'x11'
gnuplot>

At this point, gnuplot may or may not actually work. Sometimes it 
just hangs if I try to plot something, sometimes it spits out the 
same error message as above, and sometimes it operates normally. I 
have no Idea why in either case. Also, there are times when no error 
message occurs and gnuplot works fine. I have done this installation 
of three Windows XP machines, and things are OK on only one of them. 
The other two exhibit this problem. Any ideas?

-- Henry Freund