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Hi Mario,

On Sun, 2008-09-14 at 12:23 +0200, Mario Rodriguez wrote:
> >>>     gnuplot> lc rgb  'red'
> >>>              ^
> >>>              "/home/bob/maxout.gnuplot", line 21: invalid command
> >>> repeat
> >>> (%o4) done
> >>>
> >>> Errors like the above repeat, the number tends to vary from execution to
> >>> execution (perhaps due to the interface with texmacs?) and they are not
> >>> all the same.
> >>>
> >>> gnuplot> 'red'
> >>> gnuplot> b 'red'
> >>> gnuplot> 1 lc rgb 'red'
> >>> gnuplot> rgb 'red'
> >>>
> >>> are example of other first lines in the error message.
> >>>
> >> What are the versions of Gnuplot and Maxima?
> > 
> > gnuplot 4.2.3-1
> > maxima 5.16.2-1
> > 
> 
> Hello Robert,
> 
> Certainly, these two versions should be fully compatible, since the 
> linecolor (lc) keyword was introduced in gnuplot 4.2
> 
> I can't reproduce this problem with either gnuplot 4.3 or 4.2 in  my 
> ubuntu box.
> 
> If you continue having this problem, once you have files maxout.gnuplot 
> and data.gnuplot in you personal folder, call gnuplot from terminal and type
> 
> load 'maxout.gnuplot'
> 
> to see if you get the same errors, in this case, please send both files 
> to me and I'll take a closer look.

The result is that the last plot is shown and there are no error
messages. To me this indicates there is a problem with the texmacs
interface to gnuplot, so I shall redirect my enquiries there.

Thanks for your patience and help.

Bob

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