Re: octave & octave-forge install instructions for Mac OS X 10.4.x

[Marius Schamschula]

Henry,

On Jul 2, 2005, at 1:00 PM, Henry F. Mollet wrote:

> I used X11 and tried to run octave and gnuplot in the X11/xterm 
> terminal.
> Octave worked but would not plot because it now could not find 
> gnuplot. Then
> I opened gnuplot and I could do a plot.
>
> I must also have to set the path someplace for both octave and gnuplot
> because I had to use /urs/local/bin/octave or gnuplot to open these
> applications in the xterm terminal.
> Henry

This is a known issue with Apple's xterm. By default it seems not to 
read your .bash_proflie. I usually do a

bash --login

to force things to be read in.

Marius
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