On Fri, 12 Dec 2014, Tim Wescott wrote: > To generate a figure, make runs its generating script from a shell, e.g. > > scilab -nw -nb -e > "execstr(['errcatch(-1,''kill'')';'scf';'exec(''motor-PD-friction.sce'');';'quit'])" Tim, Have you looked at the 'expect' command? Rich