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Re: New Install - nothing happens for plot command
From: |
Michael Goffioul |
Subject: |
Re: New Install - nothing happens for plot command |
Date: |
Thu, 7 Feb 2008 21:49:37 +0100 |
On 2/7/08, eli brossell <address@hidden> wrote:
> I installed octave 2.1.73 and gnuplot 4.2.2-1 today as part of a new
> i686-pc-cygwin installation. I've been trying to do some simple plots just
> to see how things work. Nothing is happening when I enter the plot command.
> The lines below are an example of what I'm entering after starting octave
> in cygwin.
>
> octave:1> a = [1 2 3];
> octave:2> b = [2 3 4];
> octave:3> plot(a,b)
> octave:4>
>
> I was expecting another window to open as a result of line 3. Is that
> wrong? I've reinstalled gnuplot and octave through the cygwin setup
> executable a couple of times with various mirrors and both http and ftp.
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I have no idea about what's happening, but I wanted to point out that
2.1.73 is quite out-dated. You can find newer binary packages for
Windows, see http://wiki.octave.org/wiki.pl?OctaveForWindows
Michael.