gnuplot questions



Andrey G. Grozin writes:
> Hello *,
> 
> I have gnuplot-4.0 installed on my Gentoo Linux box, and a recent cvs 
> maxima. When I run gnuplot interactively, I can rotate and rescale 3d 
> plots by the mouse. When the plot is produced by maxima, I can't.
> [gnuplot_preamble,"set mouse"] does not help. How can I make 
> maxima-produced plots "live"?
> 
> How can I ask gnuplot to eliminate hidden lines? I could not find such an 
> option.
> 
> Besr wishes,
> Andrey
> 

On Unix platform Maxima starts gnuplot with -persist switch.
Without it gnuplot terminates as soon as end of plot
data is reached.  With -persist gnuplot stay running
even if EOF is reached but only in the form of small
program which is not smart enough to rotate plot.


-- 
      Vadim V. Zhytnikov