Re: Fwd: can not get octave to plot - posting again

[Thomas Treichl]

Nasreddin Hodja schrieb:
> Thomas,
>
> The results are interesting. Do I need to reset TMPDIR variable to 
> something else. It seems to point to something non-existent...or just 
> create a /local/tmp?
> *ls -l /local/tmp
> ls: /local/tmp: No such file or directory
>
> ls -l /tmp
> lrwxr-xr-x@ 1 root  admin  12 Jun  4 10:15 /tmp@ -> /private/tmp
>
> echo $TMPDIR
> *
> */local/tmp
>
> octave-3.2.2:368> tmpnam ()
> ans = /local/tmp/oct-a1D8LQ
>
> octave-3.2.2:366>  [verr, vmsg] = mkfifo ("test.txt", 666)
> verr = 0
> vmsg =
> octave-3.2.2:367>  delete ("test.txt")
> *
> Thanks and best regards...
>
> --tolga

Hi again,

don't create the /local/tmp directory because there is no need for such a 
directory on a Mac. The interesting part for me is, where on your Mac is TMPDIR 
defined? Is it a local definition somewhere in your ~/.profile or ~/.bashrc file 
or is it even worst defined globally? You can quickly check in Terminal.app

  cat ~/.profile
  cat ~/.bashrc

If you have configured another user on your machine then you can check if TMPDIR 
is there globally. Maybe it's defined like this

  http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/qa/qa2001/qa1067.html

My suggestion simply is to find the TMPDIR variable definition on your system 
and remove it. There really is no need to redirect the tmp directory to such a 
stupid path. If you cannot find the definition or you want to keep it because of 
a special reason then this is a workaround for your Octave to plot in an aqua 
window that should work

  setenv ("TMPDIR", "")
  plot (1:10)

Best regards

  Thomas