Re: Fwd: Octave on Mac

[poti]

> 
> Another thing is that octave.app has been prepared to work like you say, but 
> just putting gnuplot into /Applications - don't know if this is all that has 
> to be done for that gnuplot package. Try this from your Terminal.app
>   
>   bash$ which gnuplot
> 
> if it then says something like 'gnuplot not found' then you need to set up 
> that package somehow different. *Maybe* something like an 'export 
> PATH=$PATH:/<path to your gnuplot binary>' will help?!
>

It seems the above will not help. The binary inside the package 
(gnuplot-version.app/Contents/MacOS/gnupolt-version) does not appear to 
be compiled to accept input from stdin. Rather, it launches a console 
interface to gnuplot. There is an included binary to pass scripts to this 
app. I tried making this interface binary gnuplot, and calling 
plot(y) from Octave, but this only activated the program with the 
console and what appeared to be a blank editor page. 

I tried passing arguments to the binary inside the app, but that also
was to no avail, just giving me the new console with a prompt waiting
for input.