I downloaded the latest octave from
http://hpc.sourceforge.net/
.. which when I run it, seems to have problems with gnuplot/aquaterm
and the -title directive.
owen|/usr/local[655]: octave
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octave:1> plot (rand(100,1))
Cannot open load file '-title'
line 0: util.c: No such file or directory
warning: connection to external plotter (pid = 8440) lost --
warning: broken pipe -- some output may be lost
octave:2> Cannot open load file '-title'
line 0: util.c: No such file or directory
Note: The identical problem also occurred with the octave.app
version, discussed in the Octave.app-for-MacOSX-released discussion:
http://tinyurl.com/3ast5f
The solution there was to edit drawnow.m to not include the -title
directive in the call to gnuplot.
I hoped this would work for the /usr/local distro as well, but the
file drawnow.m is empty there, having only a comment:
cat /usr/local/share/octave/2.9.9/site/m/octave-forge/plot/drawnow.m
## This program intensionally left blank
So is there some way to modify the gnuplot/aquaterm invocation so as
to avoid the -title directive in the /usr/local release of octave?
Or better yet, a fix so that the -title directive works as it should?
Thanks!
-- Owen