Setting Gnuplot to "aqua" on Mac OS X. (Tiger)

[Ben Abbott]

On Apr 26, 2009, at 11:51 PM, greggallen at gmail.com wrote:

> Hi:
>
> I have no problem using Gnuplot, when I use it alone from the command
> line, by changing my environment variable TERM from "xterm-color" to
> "aqua".
>
> When I call "plot" from octave, though, it won't use the environment
> variable but gives me this:
>
> octave:4> plot(x,y)
> gnuplot> plot "-" using ($1):($2) axes x1y1 title "" with lines  
> linestyle 1 ;
>              ^
>         line 0: use 'set term' to set terminal type first
> gnuplot> 0 0
>         ^
>         line 0: invalid command
>
> I don't know HOW to set he terminal type from octave.  I need to pass
> "aqua" to Gnuplot  when it is called from Octave.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> I'm totally new to both Gnuplot and Octave, although I have a bit of
> experience with MATLAB, back in the mid-nineties.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Sincerely,

Leave "TERM" as it was and set "GNUTERM" instead. For me

	export GNUTERM=aqua

	$ echo $TERM
	xterm-color
	$ echo $GNUTERM
	aqua

For the aqua terminal to work, you'll need AquaTerm to be installed.

Ben