Re: figure

[Joao Cardoso]

Joerg Schreiber wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> I am just trying to change from matlab to octave.
> 
> I just tried:
> 
> octave:15> figure (2)
> error: figure: gnuplot doesn't appear to support this feature
> error: evaluating index expression near line 38, column 7
> error: evaluating if command near line 30, column 5
> error: evaluating if command near line 29, column 3
> error: called from igure' in file /usr/share/octave/2.0.13/m/plot/figure.
> octave:15> help figure
> figure is the function defined from: /usr/share/octave/2.0.13/m/plot/figure.

my gnuplot
        G N U P L O T
        unix version 3.5 (pre 3.6)
        patchlevel beta 315
        last modified Sun Sep 29 22:10:39 BST 1996

supports it OK, as well as Octave. Perhaps that particular gnuplot
patchlevel is defective, try

gnuplot> set terminal x11 3
Terminal type set to 'x11'
Options are '3'
gnuplot> plot sin(x)

to see if it really works

Joao

> 
>  usage: figure (n)
> 
>  Set the current plot window to plot window N.  This function
>  currently requires X11 and a recent version of gnuplot.
> 
> :~/mat > gnuplot
> 
>         G N U P L O T
>         Linux version 3.5 (pre 3.6)
>         patchlevel beta 347
>         last modified Mon Jun 22 13:22:33 BST 1998
> 
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> 
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> 
> Terminal type set to 'x11'
> gnuplot>
> 
> What's going wrong? Can this be a problem of x11 / X11 ?
> 
> regards, joerg

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