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From: | Jonathan Stickel |
Subject: | Re: Plotting problems under cygwin |
Date: | Thu, 22 Sep 2005 08:40:25 -0700 |
User-agent: | Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050716) |
LUK ShunTim wrote:
Soneson, Joshua E* wrote:Hello. I have been playing with octave under cygwin (Windows2000) but none of the graphics functions seem to work. No error messages, just nothing. I found a thread online which recommended placing the files pgnuplot.exe, wgnuplot.exe, wgnuplot.hlp, and wgnuplot.mnu intoC:\cygwin\usr\local\bin, but this still doesn't work. Any ideas? Thanks for your time! -JoshYou need gnuplot and associated X-windows packages to get the graphics. If you use the cygwin setup porgramme, it should get these dependencies for you. See this wiki page http://wiki.octave.org/wiki.pl?OctaveForWindows
I recently tested out octave under cygwin, pulling in octave, octave-forge, X, etc. So for my first test I tried to plot something: nope nothing happenned. It turns out that you have to start X first, i.e.
> startx (opens an xterm) > octave (plotting works) I don't know if this is detailed in docs or a wiki somewhere or not. Jonathan ------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------
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