Help with plot on Macbook

[Gerard Awanou]

Thank you for your quick reply Ben

I got Octave from http://octave.sourceforge.net/ I believe. I installed 
gnuplot from the Extras folder.
After I typed "getenv('GNUTERM')", I got
ans =

gnuplot appears to be installed. It opens in a terminal with the message
exec '/Applications/Gnuplot.app/Contents/Resources/bin/gnuplot'
followed by information about the version and finally the message
Terminal type set to 'aqua'

However when I type on a terminal which gnuplot I get the message
no gnuplot in /bin /sbin /usr/bin /usr/sbin /usr/local/bin /usr/texbin

I must say that a few months ago, I unsuccessfully tried to fix an 
installation of Octave by playing around with the commands sudo, 
Aquaterm and X11 following suggestions on the internet. I now have X11 
installed.

Thanks again.

Gerard

On Fri, 2 Jan 2009, Ben Abbott wrote:

>
> On Jan 2, 2009, at 10:09 PM, Gerard Awanou wrote:
>
>> Greetings
>> 
>> I am having trouble with Octave on my Macbook. The command plot([1 2 3])
>> runs but nothing happens.
>> 
>> Thanks for your anticiapted reply
>> 
>> Gerard Awanou
>
> Where/how did you obtain octave?
>
> Did you install gnuplot?
>
> If you are not sure, check to see if "gnuplot" is in you Applications folder. 
> Open a Terminal window (Terminal is in Applications/Utilities) and type 
> "which gnuplot". If you get nothing, and you have the octave.dmg open it. 
> You'll find gnuplot.dmg in the Extra's folder.
>
> If gnuplot is on you system, type "getenv('GNUTERM')" in octave's window and 
> let us know what happens.
>
> Ben