octave, gnuplot and aquaterm

Thomas Treichl Thomas.Treichl at gmx.net
Sat Feb 7 13:03:23 CST 2009


Florian Kühnlenz schrieb:
> Hello,
> 
> I have installed octave and gnuplot via macports (aquaterm is  
> installed automatically with gnuplot). I set it all up to use aquaterm  
> which works fine in gnuplot itself:
> gnuplot> plot sin(x)
> will open aquaterm
> but in octave:
> octave>fplot("cos",[0,2*pi])
> will open an window in X11
> can someone give me a hint what I have to do to plot in aquaterm from  
> octave as well? 

I don't know how the Macports distribution sets up your environment in detail, 
but something like this should normally also work on your system:

   octave-3.0.3:1> setenv ("GNUTERM", "aqua");
   octave-3.0.3:2> sombrero;

Best regards,

   Thomas


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