Plots not showing

[Ben Abbott]

On Tuesday, October 28, 2008, at 12:56PM, "Mark Abbott" <mark at abbottfm.co.uk> wrote:
>I've just installed Octave 3.0.2 and gnuplot 4.2.3 on MacOSX 10.4.11  
>PowerPC.  The install itself worked fine (as far as I know) and  
>Octave works great.
>
>However, I can't get plots to show.  When asking for a plot, semilog  
>etc, the computer pauses to do the work, but then nothing shows -  
>Octave just goes to the next prompt.  There are no error messages  
>(e.g. like the ones you get if gnuplot isn't installed).
>
>Any ideas would be most appreciated.  I'm not a Terminal expert, so  
>you'll have to type slowly, I'm afraid.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Mark

Hi Mark,

Where did you get your copy of Octave?

Assuming you installed a binary distribution, have you installed AquaTerm as well? If not you can install AquaTerm using Fink, DarwinPorts, or download the binary

    http://sourceforge.net/projects/aquaterm/

Ben