Re: tmp gets full when plotting many images

[John W. Eaton]

On 26-Mar-2007, Daniel J Sebald wrote:

| John W. Eaton wrote:
| > On 26-Mar-2007, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
| > 
| > | 
| > | It seems to me that the use of the 4 columns is ultimately the same once 
gnuplot 
| > | takes 1,2,3,4,5,... and maps it to [0,1].
| > | 
| > | Anyway, here's a patch to illustrate using binary data.  Give it a try 
and see 
| > | if you like it.  (If you want to stay ASCII, remove the "binary" portion 
of the 
| > | option and use fprintf instead.)  It shouldn't be too difficult to make 
the 
| > | changes for sending the line/surface/image data as binary as well.
| > 
| > I applied the patch and checked it in.
| 
| Oops, have to be a "little" bit careful (ar, ar).  Here are some more subtle 
| changes addressing endian declaration to ensure things work across multiple 
| platforms and CPUs.

Does it matter?  At this point I think it is safe to assume that the
Octave and gnuplot processes are running on the same machine, so the
native floating point format should be the same for both.

jwe