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Re: conflict between "set terminal" and "pause"?

From	Ethan Merritt <eamerritt@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot
Subject	Re: conflict between "set terminal" and "pause"?
Date	2018-06-30 00:38 +0000
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On Fri, 29 Jun 2018 14:33:33 -0700, Christoph Oelke wrote:

> This is the gnuplot version I am using:
> 
> G N U P L O T
>         Version 5.0 patchlevel rc2    last modified 2014-08-28
> 
> on Windows 10, version 1803, system build 17134.112
> 
> pause works until a command such as "set term win" or "set term png".
> 
> Christoph

That may correspond to this bug:
     https://sourceforge.net/p/gnuplot/bugs/1867/

The problem was specific to windows executables built with mingw.
The fix first appeared in the 5.0.6 release (March 2017).

	Ethan


> 
> 
> Am Donnerstag, 28. Juni 2018 06:29:45 UTC+2 schrieb Ethan Merritt:
>> On Thu, 21 Jun 2018 14:04:29 -0700, chr.oelke wrote:
>> 
>> > Hi, I'm trying to periodically replot my script after a certain
>> > number of seconds. But pause only works until the first occurance of
>> > "set terminal", after that pause is ignored.
>> > 
>> > Is there any way to get around it? I use gnuplot with windows10.
>> > Cheers, Chris
>> 
>> I have seen no other reports of this problem.  Certainly "pause
>> <seconds>" works on all platforms that I have tried myself.
>> If you are sure this is reproducible on Windows 10, please file a bug
>> report and specify what version and build of gnuplot you are using.
>> E.g. gp524-win64-mingw_1.exe  downloaded from SourceForge.
>> 
>>      Ethan

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conflict between "set terminal" and "pause"? chr.oelke@gmail.com - 2018-06-21 14:04 -0700
  Re: conflict between "set terminal" and "pause"? Ethan Merritt <eamerritt@gmail.com> - 2018-06-28 04:29 +0000
    Re: conflict between "set terminal" and "pause"? Christoph Oelke <chr.oelke@gmail.com> - 2018-06-29 14:33 -0700
      Re: conflict between "set terminal" and "pause"? Ethan Merritt <eamerritt@gmail.com> - 2018-06-30 00:38 +0000

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