Re: x11 prints garbage to stdout on OS/2

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

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On Tuesday 16 December 2003 06:52, Petr Mikulik wrote:
> There is a report, which I can confirm, that X11 terminal under OS/2
>
> - prints a lot of garbage onto the gnuplot xterm, or

I have no idea about this one, and no way of debugging it.
Could you at least establish whether it is gnuplot or gnuplot_x11
that produces this garbage?

> I *guess* there is some code using PIPE_IPC without #ifdef PIPE_IPC
> around it, and thus all the communication goes into the screen.

I don't think so, at least not in the x11.trm code.  This would cause a
severe error when the program tried to write to an invalid file descripto=
r.


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