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

[Joe Koski]

Henry, Marius,

By accident I discovered that Apple's X11 seems to use .bashrc, not
.bash_profile, so I just duplicate any necessary path changes, etc., there.
It works the same for me for both xterm and rxvt.

I haven't tried emacs yet. Real UNIX people seem to prefer emacs to xterm to
rxvt. I guess I'm not a true UNIX geek yet.

Joe


on 7/4/05 8:59 PM, Henry F. Mollet at address@hidden wrote:

> henry-f-mollets-emac:~ hfm$ gnuplot
> bash: gnuplot: command not found
> henry-f-mollets-emac:~ hfm$ bash --login
> henry-f-mollets-emac:~ hfm$ gnuplot
> 
>         G N U P L O T
>         Version 4.0 patchlevel 0
> 
> henry-f-mollets-emac:~ hfm$ export
> declare -x DISPLAY=":0.0"
> declare -x HOME="/Users/hfm"
> declare -x LOGNAME="hfm"
> declare -x MANPATH="/usr/man:/usr/X11R6/man"
> declare -x OLDPWD
> declare -x PATH="/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin"
> declare -x PWD="/Users/hfm"
> declare -x SECURITYSESSIONID="b86380"
> declare -x SHELL="/bin/bash"
> declare -x SHLVL="2"
> declare -x TERM="xterm"
> declare -x USER="hfm"
> declare -x WINDOWID="6291470"
> declare -x __CF_USER_TEXT_ENCODING="0x1F5:0:0"
> henry-f-mollets-emac:~ hfm$
> 
> Joe Koski is using the rxvt X11 terminal which probably does not have this
> odd behavior of having to force things to be read in. He also said that it
> has the scroll bar on the right and that the terminal behaves more like
> expected and he built it from source.
> 
> For setting scroll bar etc. on Apple's xterm see
> http://www.abbeyworkshop.com/howto/macosx/x11Term/
> 
> Thanks, Henry
> 
> 
> on 7/3/05 12:15 PM, Marius Schamschula at address@hidden wrote:
>> 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
>> --
>> Marius Schamschula                               Webmaster
>> 
>>          The Huntsville Macintosh Users Group
>>                      www.hmug.org
>> 
>> webmaster at hmug dot org    marius at schamschula dot com
>> 
>> 
>> 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
>> 
> 
> 
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