please help me plot

[Ivan Sutoris]

On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 9:56 PM, David Forel <davidforel at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestion.  Some web article, maybe very old, suggested using the Cygwin version of Octave.  Oops!
>
> I installed 3.0.3 and things seem fine.  (Well, an m-file that I didn't write has a problem that I will look at; an m-file that I wrote works fine.)
>
> I will state that I need Octave because I don't want to spend $2,000 for the pro license for Matlab, not counting add-ons.  Thank the gods for Octave!
>
> Another plot question.  I installed choosing the jhandles option, not gnuplot.  I have book "GNU Octave Manual Version 3."  Does this book contain enough information for me to get the plot commands I will want or do I have to buy/download something else to cover jhandles ?
>
> Thank you, David

jhandles is just a "backend", so all basic plotting commands described
in manual (plot, legend, title, ...) should work the same. You also
should be able to disable jhandles (and use gnuplot) with command "pkg
unload jhandles".

Regards
Ivan Sutoris