Re: gnuplot error

[Robert Fong-tom]

Hi,
I tried something different that worked. I put the line GNUTERM=x11  
in a file called .profile. Why did I do this? In googling around I  
saw references to a .profile file, but I don't understand the  
differnce between .bash, .bashrc, and some other similar files which  
I can't remember the name of right now. Does you or anyone out there  
know the difference between these files?

Another question is can one set up the environment to use both?
Bob
Hardware: MacBook Pro Intel, OS X 10.4

On Nov 18, 2008, at 3:48 AM, Carlo de Falco wrote:

> On 18/nov/08, at 02:00, Robert Fong-tom wrote:
>
> > Hi Carlo,
> > I did not have a .bashrc file in my home directory. So I created  
> > one and added the line, but I am still plotting in AquaTerm.
> > I did not know before this that there was a difference between  
> > plotting in X11 and AquaTerm, but I gather from googling that  
> > plotting under X11 gives the capability to  zoom and to rotate 3-D  
> > plots with the mouse. This I like and would really like have this  
> > capability. Any other ideas on how to accomplish this?
> >
> > Bob
> > Hardware : Intel Mac Book Pro, OSX 10.4
>
> this might be another difference between 10.5 and 10.4,
> try to rename .bashrc to .bash_login (check whether the file exists  
> first!)
> if this fails you can try to start Octave from the command line as
>
> GNUTERM=x11 /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/bin/octave
>
> c.