Re: gnuplot no longer works

[Dushan Mitrovich]

Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:
> I'm not familiar with macports (I use Fink), but what does the
> following pair of commands give you
> 
>   $ echo $GNUTERM
>   $ echo $GNUTERMAPP
> 
> You might also check your path to be sure that the corrent gnuplot
> will be encountered first.
> 
>   $ echo $PATH
> 
> My path points to the applications installed by Fink first.
> 
>   /sw/bin:/sw/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/
> X11/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
> 
> I can't say if the problem is due to your duplicate gnuplots, or due
> to different version of gnuplot, or something else. However, if you
> have no reason for such an installation, I'd prune down to a single
> installation.

Ben, I tried these 'echo' commands both within Terminal and within Octave
( using 'system('echo $...') ).  Here are the results in table form.
                       ________           ______
               within  Terminal           Octave
    
    echo $GNUTERM      <blank>            ans = 0
    
    echo $GNUTERMAPP   <blank>            ans = 0
    
    echo $PATH         /opt/local/bin:    AOCRlo/3.0.0/site/eiad:  
                       /opt/local/sbin:   AOCRlo/api-v32/site/eiad:
                       /bin:/sbin:        AOCRlo/site/eiad:
                       /usr/bin:          AOCRlo/3.0.0/eiad:
                       /usr/sbin          AOCR/bin:
                                          AGCR/bin:
                                          /opt/local/bin: 
                                          /opt/local/sbin:
                                          /bin:/sbin:     
                                          /usr/bin:       
                                          /usr/sbin       

where  AOCR = /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources
       AOCRlo = AOCR/libexec/octave
       AGCR = /Applications/Gnuplot.app/Contents/Resources
       eiad = exec/i386-apple-darwin8.9.1

and the PATH entries were separated to individual lines for clarity.

I notice that nowhere in the PATH are there references to either X11 or
AquaTerm.  When I /Applications/Utilities/X11.app manually, set GNUTERM to
x11, then ask Octave to plot, again nothing happens.

BTW, I deleted all but the Octave version of gnuplot.  In my reply to
Thomas Treichl I describe other things I tried.  Any further ideas would be
appreciated.

- Dushan