Re: New Install - nothing happens for plot command

[Michael Goffioul]

On 2/7/08, eli brossell <address@hidden> wrote:
> I installed octave 2.1.73 and gnuplot 4.2.2-1 today as part of a new
> i686-pc-cygwin installation.  I've been trying to do some simple plots just
> to see how things work.  Nothing is happening when I enter the plot command.
>  The lines below are an example of what I'm entering after starting octave
> in cygwin.
>
> octave:1> a = [1 2 3];
> octave:2> b = [2 3 4];
> octave:3> plot(a,b)
> octave:4>
>
> I was expecting another window to open as a result of line 3.  Is that
> wrong?  I've reinstalled gnuplot and octave through the cygwin setup
> executable a couple of times with various mirrors and both http and ftp.
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I have no idea about what's happening, but I wanted to point out that
2.1.73 is quite out-dated. You can find newer binary packages for
Windows, see http://wiki.octave.org/wiki.pl?OctaveForWindows

Michael.