decoding error message

[Ben Abbott]

On Feb 17, 2009, at 7:43 PM, asha g wrote:

> --- On Wed, 18/2/09, Ben Abbott <bpabbott at mac.com> wrote:
>
>> From: Ben Abbott <bpabbott at mac.com>
>> Subject: Re: decoding error message
>> To: dend_15 at yahoo.com
>> Cc: "Søren Hauberg" <soren at hauberg.org>, help at octave.org
>> Date: Wednesday, 18 February, 2009, 6:07 AM
>> On Feb 17, 2009, at 7:10 PM, asha g wrote:
>>
>>> --- On Mon, 16/2/09, Søren Hauberg
>> <soren at hauberg.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> From: Søren Hauberg <soren at hauberg.org>
>>>> Subject: Re: decoding error message
>>>> To: dend_15 at yahoo.com
>>>> Cc: help at octave.org
>>>> Date: Monday, 16 February, 2009, 12:25 PM
>>>> man, 16 02 2009 kl. 12:18 +0530, skrev asha g:
>>>>> I tried that and get the following message:
>>>>> warning: 3.0.0: no such file or directory
>>>>>
>>>>> So does it mean that octave 2.1.57 cannot read
>> the
>>>> legend command? It was working earlier.
>>>>
>>>> Octave 2.1.57 does not have the 'legend'
>> command.
>>>> As long as you're
>>>> using this (very old) version you will not be able
>> to use
>>>> that command.
>>>> You should figure out why you're starting
>> version
>>>> 2.1.57 instead of
>>>> version 3.0. I'm not sure why this is
>> happening,
>>>> though. What OS are you
>>>> using?
>>>>
>>>> Søren
>>>
>>> This is the message i get after running it on Octave
>> 3.0
>>>
>>> gnuplot: unable to open display ':0.0'
>>> gnuplot: X11 aborted.
>>> octave:3> Xlib: connection to ":0.0"
>> refused by server
>>> Xlib: No protocol specified
>>>
>>> Asha
>>
>> Hi Asha,
>>
>> You posted this info on a prior email, but ...
>>
>> What OS are you running?
>>
>> Where did you get your copy of Octave from?
>>
>> Ben
>
> OS is RedHat Enterprise Linus 4.0.
> Octave was downloaded - not sure from where.
> Asha


Ok, I'm no help. Running OSX, my gnuplot works fine on x11 with  
DISPLAY=:0.0

I expect a Linux user will offer some advice shortly.

Ben