On Mar 3, 2008, at 4:40 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:
>
> On Mar 3, 2008, at 10:06 AM, Stuart Borrett wrote:
>
>> I recently downloaded and installed both octave 3.0 and gnuplot 4.2
>> onto my Mac Pro running OSX 10.4.11. I can run Octave successfully
>> from both the Terminal application and the xterm for X11. When I
>> type plot(1:10) in the xterm, it generates the appropriate gnuplot.
>> However, when I issue the same command from mac Terminal or from
>> inside Emacs no figure appears. I do not get an error message; it
>> seems to have worked just fine except that it does not draw the
>> graph!
>>
>> I would appreciate any help you might provide.
>>
>> Stuart
>>
>> PS. It works just fine on my MacBook Pro running OSX 10.4.11 using
>> the same disk images for Octave 3.0 and GNU Plot.
>
> I had the same problem with OSX 10.4. I don't recall the details that
> led to a resolution, but I do have a few questions that will hopefully
> help.
>
> (1) From where did you get Octave?
> (2) Do you have Aquaterm installed?
> (3) What do you get when the following is typed in a terminal window?
>
> echo $GNUTERM
> echo $GNUTERMAPP
>
> (4) What do you get when you type "gnuplot<TAB><TAB>" ... does the
> terminal display "gnuplot gnuplotx"?
> (5) When you run gnuplot, does it immediately respond "Terminal type
> set to 'aqua'"?
> (6) What happens when you type "plot sin(x)" from the gnuplot prompt?
>
> Ben
>
>
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