[Plplot-devel] Tcl issues solved on Windows!

2010-12-16 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2010-12-16 11:35-0800 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > The bad C results on wine show the error has nothing to do with Tcl > which is a nice simplification, but the corresponding good results on > Linux show it must be some Windows-specific issue. On the other hand, > the good C results using the -o opti

Re: [Plplot-devel] Fix for 79-character truncation on plgfnam

2010-12-16 Thread David MacMahon
Hi, Alan, On Dec 16, 2010, at 6:54 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: > Here is what I propose instead of this temporary measure. We go with > a backward-incompatible API change (and associated soname bump to > force everybody to recompile) of > > c_plgfnam( char *fnam ); ==> c_plgfnam( char *fnam, PLINT

[Plplot-devel] Fix for 79-character truncation on plgfnam

2010-12-16 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Andrew, I would very much appreciate your and other PLplot API expert's comments on this issue. I noticed during some of my generic testing today that the output file name was truncated for the 31st example at the 79th character. This seems to be a rather tight limit for today's computers where f

Re: [Plplot-devel] Installing the latest MinGW/MSYS

2010-12-16 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2010-12-16 08:40+0100 Arjen Markus wrote: > Hi Alan, > > okay, at the very least this error is consistent, so that should make > it easier to hunt down. I think I have some opportunity tonight to > further investigate this and other Windows matters. Will keep you > posted. Hi Arjen: As in all