Re: clear all and gnuplot (was Weird error with gnuplot: 'invalid command')

Alexander Klink wrote:
...
> clear all;
> line (left from the Matlab code I am porting from, if I understand
> help clear correctly, this might not do the same thing in Octave).
...

That may be obvious, but here it is anyway:


octave:1> whos

*** dynamically linked functions:

 Prot Name                  Size                     Bytes  Class
 ==== ====                  ====                     =====  =====
  r-- __gnuplot_init__     -1x-1                         0  dynamically-linked 
function
  r-- dispatch             -1x-1                         0  dynamically-linked 
function

Total is 2 elements using 0 bytes

*** local user variables:

 Prot Name            Size                     Bytes  Class
 ==== ====            ====                     =====  =====
  rw- __nargin__      1x1                          8  scalar

Total is 1 element using 8 bytes

octave:2> clear
octave:3> whos

*** dynamically linked functions:

 Prot Name                  Size                     Bytes  Class
 ==== ====                  ====                     =====  =====
  r-- __gnuplot_init__     -1x-1                         0  dynamically-linked 
function
  r-- dispatch             -1x-1                         0  dynamically-linked 
function

Total is 2 elements using 0 bytes

*** local user variables:

 Prot Name            Size                     Bytes  Class
 ==== ====            ====                     =====  =====
  rw- __nargin__      1x1                          8  scalar

Total is 1 element using 8 bytes

(looks fine)

octave:4> clear all
octave:5> whos

*** dynamically linked functions:

 Prot Name          Size                     Bytes  Class
 ==== ====          ====                     =====  =====
  r-- dispatch     -1x-1                         0  dynamically-linked function

Total is 1 element using 0 bytes

*** local user variables:

 Prot Name            Size                     Bytes  Class
 ==== ====            ====                     =====  =====
  rw- __nargin__      1x1                          8  scalar

Total is 1 element using 8 bytes

(does not look good, __gnuplot_init__ has gone, I guess octave thinks it is a 
user defined var?)

Sincerely,
Dmitri.
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