Re: Octave.app for MacOSX released

[Paul Kienzle]

On Jul 10, 2007, at 11:40 PM, backspaces wrote:

> I downloaded and installed into /Applications Octave.app from the 
> .dmg.  I
> also have gnuplot and aquaterm already installed and working together.
> ...
> But when I try to plot using an example from an earlier post, I get an 
> error, apparently due to a configuration problem of some sort (likely 
> a gnuplot/aquaterm problem?)
>
> <snip>
> octave-2.9.12:1> x = linspace(0,pi,100);
> octave-2.9.12:2> plot (x,sin(x))
> Cannot open load file '-title'
> line 0: util.c: No such file or directory
>
> warning: broken pipe -- some output may be lost
> warning: broken pipe -- some output may be lost
> </snip>
>
> Any ideas what to do?  I have not installed or used octave earlier, so 
> possibly I've an incomplete environment somehow.

My 4.0 version of gnuplot complains when I try to set the title.  My 
solution was to modify drawnow.m so that it no longer tries.  IIRC this 
was in the following directory

        octave.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/2.9.12/m/plot/drawnow.m

You could try doing the same.

- Paul