Re: Octave.app for MacOSX released

[Henry F. Mollet]

Title seems to work for me. See below with my comments.
Henry F


 [~] -bash-2.05b 144$
'/Applications/octave.app/Contents/Resources/bin/octave'
GNU Octave, version 2.9.12
Copyright (C) 2007 John W. Eaton and others.
This is free software; see the source code for copying conditions.
There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; not even for MERCHANTIBILITY or
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  For details, type `warranty'.

Octave was configured for "powerpc-apple-darwin7.9.1".

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General info plus complaints about LOADPATH' in `/Users/hfm/.octaverc'
endSnip


octave-2.9.12:1> title ("myTitle")
# produces blank plot labeled "Figure 0" with title as specified
octave-2.9.12:2> x = linspace (0,pi,100);
octave-2.9.12:3> plot (x, sin(x))
Produces expected plot labeled "Figure 0" without any title
octave-2.9.12:4> title ("myTitle")
#Title as specified is added to plot of sin(x) vs x.
# Gnuplot is 4.0 patchlevel 0; AquaTerm is v1.0(1.0)

octave-2.9.12:5> 



on 7/10/07 8:40 PM, backspaces at address@hidden wrote:

> 
> I downloaded and installed into /Applications Octave.app from the .dmg.  I
> also have gnuplot and aquaterm already installed and working together.
> 
> When I start Octave.app, I get a terminal window with octave running:
> <snip>
> owen|~[501]: '/Applications/octave.app/Contents/Resources/bin/octave'
> GNU Octave, version 2.9.12
> Copyright (C) 2007 John W. Eaton and others.
> This is free software; see the source code for copying conditions.
> There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; not even for MERCHANTIBILITY or
> FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  For details, type `warranty'.
> 
> Octave was configured for "i386-apple-darwin8.9.1".
> 
> Additional information about Octave is available at http://www.octave.org.
> 
> Please contribute if you find this software useful.
> For more information, visit http://www.octave.org/help-wanted.html
> 
> Report bugs to <address@hidden> (but first, please read
> http://www.octave.org/bugs.html to learn how to write a helpful report).
> 
> For information about changes from previous versions, type `news'.
> </snip>
> 
> 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.
> 
> Thanks for the help,
>     Owen