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List:       gnuplot-info-beta
Subject:    Re: suggestion
From:       Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker () physik ! rwth-aachen ! de>
Date:       2000-03-15 13:38:21
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On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Angelo Fausti Neto wrote:

> hello, the command pause could works with real numbers in order to
> animate frames in intervals of 0.1 seconds, this is very important for
> my purpose that is simulation in physics,

In principle, it might do that, but there's an implementation problem: we
would need a solution for pausing for less than one seconds that works
reliably and portably on many platforms (all Unixes, DOS, Atari, Windows,
OS/2, to name some), and such a beast has long since been known by the C
gurus not to exist.

Even for sleeping in intervals of whole seconds, gnuplot has to pull quite
a few strings to get it working, as it is.

OTOH, if you really consider this missing feature to be an outright bug,
you've named yourself as the perfect volunteer to code it and contribute
the changes, for the benefit of others... :-)

Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker@physik.rwth-aachen.de)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.


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