Re: Plotting problem

[William Miner]

Everyone,

I had to do two things to get it to work

1) As Thomas suggested I changed #! To #!/bin/sh
2) As John suggested I had to add a pause statement at the end of the file.

Thanks a bunch!

Buff


On 8/17/09 3:35 PM, "Thomas Treichl" <address@hidden> wrote:

> William Miner schrieb:
>> John,
>> 
>> Thanks but I had already tried that and it didn't work (see below)
>> 
>> -rwxr-xr-x   1 williamminer  staff     133 Aug 17 14:02 test_plot.m
>> 
>> fin1:Octave williamminer$ ./test_plot.m
>> ./test_plot.m: line 2: t: command not found
>> ./test_plot.m: line 3: syntax error near unexpected token `t,'
>> ./test_plot.m: line 3: `plot (t, cos(t), "-;cos(t);", t, sin(t),
>> "+3;sin(t);");'
>> fin1:Octave williamminer$
>> 
>> Buff
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I think your problem is that the shebang line
> 
>    #!/Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/bin/octave -qf
> 
> does not work. The reason why this actually doesn't work is Mac's sh which (I
> read this on several cites for other programs) does not accept shebang lines
> with more than 31 characters for the startup script... Your workaround for
> this 
> could be this shebang line instead:
> 
>    #!/bin/sh /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/bin/octave -qf
> 
> Hope this helps,
> best regards
> 
>    Thomas
> 

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