[26816] in Athena Bugs
Re: gnuplot and send_message
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Thu Apr 6 19:52:15 2006
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Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 19:51:24 -0400
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@mit.edu>
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Hi, you wrote to bugs:
>I was helping another student make some graphs with gnuplot, and ran it
>with:
>
> add gnuplot
> gnuplot < 3-tach.gnuplot
>
>where 3-tach.gnuplot is a set of gnuplot commands. Since she hadn't run
>gnuplot before, and was not running zwgc (she was running owl),
>send_message printed a message, interfering with the proper operation of
>the gnuplot script.
Well, I don't know how many users are likely to be adversely affected by
this, but the only easy thing I can do is to turn off message sending.
I've done that, for the time being.
Alex
