Re: Cannot draw figures in Mac OS X

[Henri Mollet]

As I lost all my mail folders and addresses in
Entourage yesterday, I'm struggling using webmail and
forgot to add:
Many thanks for all the help from jwe and all the
people on the octave help list.
Henry
--- Henri Mollet <address@hidden> wrote:
> I'm also hoping that octave for Mac will become more
> user friendly, in particular for installation. 
> 
> However, I must say that a graph that I showed at
> conference in June 2003 and that took months to
> prepare (including all the calculations needed for
> 110
> species), now takes about 20-30 seconds. [plots and
> calculations for as many species that I have data
> for
> to calculate the corresponding Leslie matrix and
> then
> the first derivatives of lambda w.r.t. vital rates.
> The Leslie matrix has the survival rates on the
> first
> sub-diagonal, and the fertilities on the first row].
> 
> Henry
> 
> --- "John W. Eaton" <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On 18-Feb-2004, Henri Mollet <address@hidden>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > | I'm close to saying that if you want to use
> Octave
> > *and
> > | Octave-forge*, don't use a Mac.
> > 
> > I'm sorry that your experience up to now has not
> > been as good as it
> > might have been.
> > 
> > Unfortunately, I don't think many of the people
> > working on Octave have
> > OS X systems.  I know that I don't.  However, if
> > someone were to drop
> > one on my desk so I could play with it, then
> Octave
> > might work better
> > on OS X systems.
> > 
> > OTOH, I already have enough to do without
> additional
> > hardware, so
> > maybe it will just have to be left up to the
> people
> > who care about
> > running Octave on OS X systems.
> > 
> > OTTH, Per has been doing a good job up to now, so
> I
> > hope that can
> > continue.  In time, I think things will improve.
> > 
> > jwe
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >
> 



-------------------------------------------------------------
Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL.

Octave's home on the web:  http://www.octave.org
How to fund new projects:  http://www.octave.org/funding.html
Subscription information:  http://www.octave.org/archive.html
-------------------------------------------------------------