Plotting problem

[William Miner]

I’ve just installed Octave 3.2.2 and gnuplot 4.2.5 from SourceForge on my MacBookPro running Mac OS X 10.5.7. I got the i386 binaries. If I enter the commands

 t = 0:0.1:6.3;
 plot (t, cos(t), "-;cos(t);", t, sin(t), "+3;sin(t);");

by hand at the octave prompt, everything works as advertised. An aquaterm window opens and the plot appears.  However, if I created a file

#! /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/bin/octave -qf
t = 0:0.1:6.3;
plot (t, cos(t), "-;cos(t);", t, sin(t), "+3;sin(t);");

and try to execute it either by “octave test_plot.m” or just “test_plot.m”  as described in the GNU Octave Manual Version 3 page 25, it fails (see below). Could thisw be a bash shell problem? By the way, I’ve set GNUTERM to aqua, i. e.

fin1:~ williamminer$ echo $GNUTERM
aqua

Thanks in advance!

Buff Miner

fin1:Octave williamminer$ which octave
/Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/bin/octave

fin1:Octave williamminer$ octave
GNU Octave, version 3.2.2
Copyright (C) 2009 John W. Eaton and others.
This is free software; see the source code for copying conditions.
There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  For details, type `warranty'.

Octave was configured for "i386-apple-darwin8.11.1".

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).

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octave-3.2.2:1> t = 0:0.1:6.3;
octave-3.2.2:2> plot (t, cos(t), "-;cos(t);", t, sin(t), "+3;sin(t);");
octave-3.2.2:3> exit()

fin1:Octave williamminer$ cat test_plot.m
#! /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/bin/octave -qf
t = 0:0.1:6.3;
plot (t, cos(t), "-;cos(t);", t, sin(t), "+3;sin(t);");
fin1:Octave williamminer$ octave test_plot.m
GNU Octave, version 3.2.2
Copyright (C) 2009 John W. Eaton and others.
This is free software; see the source code for copying conditions.
There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  For details, type `warranty'.

Octave was configured for "i386-apple-darwin8.11.1".

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'.


fin1:Octave williamminer$ test_plot.m
-bash: test_plot.m: command not found
fin1:Octave williamminer$ 
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