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Re: zoom?


From: Joe Koski
Subject: Re: zoom?
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 11:24:14 -0600
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on 4/24/06 11:10 AM, Louis Pecora at address@hidden wrote:

> Ben Arthur wrote:
>> thanks!  worked like a charm.  the middle mouse button of labelling
>> the point with it's (x,y) coordinates is quite handy too.
>> 
>> 
>>   
>>> Create a file called .gnuplot in your default directory with the
>>> following line:
>>> 
>>> set mouse
>>> 
>>> The next time you start up Octave and plot, you should be able to zoom
>>> in by selecting an area with the right-mouse button.  You can zoom back
>>> out by pressing 'u'.  Not quite as pretty as Matlab but it works.  You
>>> can also rotate 3d plots with the mouse after adding this line.
>>>     
> 
> This looks like a nice feature, but (dumb question) how do you find the
> default directory?   When I start Octave 'pwd' gives whatever directory
> my Terminal was in at the time.

Louis,

A local directory is the typical way to work with octave. Similar to a word
processor, you work on your data and script files in a local directory, and
octave routines are found by accessing the PATH. If you have an octave
routine in the local directory, the local routine is chosen over one on the
path with the same name. There are routines for changing the path if needed.

Joe




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