Re: Cannot draw figures in Mac OS X

[Vic Norton]

Well, my octave and gnuplot were both installed via DarwinPorts, and 
my X11 is standard Apple fare. They certainly don't communicate on my 
system (Mac OS X, 10.2.3).

My first question remains "how get '/opt/local/bin' into the X11 
path". Apple says

   Getting X11 running on Mac OS X is easy. The installer sets up
   your environment with your path and DISPLAY.

Well great, Apple, but, unfortunately, your path isn't the one I 
want. Isn't there some sort of '~/.xbash-profile' where I can set my 
intial path?

But even when I do append '/opt/local/bin' to PATH in X11, octave and 
gnuplot can't communicate.

This whole X11 thing is a complete mess as far as I am concerned. 
Even trivial things don't work, e.g., I can copy from but I can't 
paste to an xterm window. Getting X11 running on Mac OS X may be 
easy, but, for this novice, it is absolutely worthless.

Sorry about this diatribe. I know, this is an octave list. I should 
probably be ranting on some Mac list, but I would like to use octave 
to graph something. I had no problems graphing with MatLab on a 
classic Mac. I expect I would have no problems graphing with MatLab 
on OS X. Maybe that is where I'll end up, but I would prefer to work 
with public domain software.

Regards,

Vic


At 8:33 AM -0600 2/19/04, A S Hodel wrote:
> I've been using octave on a mac for 6 years or more now.
> I'm currently running Octave on both G3 and G4 machines, some
> running Jaguar (10.2.x) and one running Panther (10.3.x).
> The basic machine configurations are:
>
> Jaguar:
> - fink install of octave, Xfree-86, gnuplot, and Aquaterm
>
> Panther:
> - Apple X11
> - fink install of octave, gnuplot, and Aquaterm -or-
> - CVS install of octave (requires a couple tweaks),
>    fink install of gnuplot and aquaterm.
>
> I'm able to use both Aquaterm and gnuplot on both OS's; my
> preference (due habits acquired due to using octave to mac OS X ) is
> gnuplot.
>
> I've not tried to install octave without gnuplot/X11.  That may be a part
> of the problem (others will have to speak to that).

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