Re: Octave on Mac (Intel): GNUplot problem

[Leo Butler]

On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Stuart Edwards wrote:

< Interesting .... I have the same problem.  I have written some octave  
< scripts with the same octave shebang line and when I run it -  
< nothing.  If I run the shebang line (minus the #!) from the command  
< line, octave opens.  Then if I start the script it runs fine.  But  
< I've never been able to start it 'automatically' as originally intended.
< 
< Mac OSX 10.5 an 10.6.1
< Octave 3.2.2
< Aquaterm 1.0.1
< Gnuplot 4.0
< 
< Stu
< 
< 
< On Oct 14, 2009, at 10:30 AM, Vic Norton wrote:
< 
< > Hi Thomas,
< >
< > I'm running Octave 3.2.3 and Gnuplot 4.2.6 on Mac OSX 10.6.1. These
< > Octave and Gnuplot live in Octave.app and Gnuplot.app respectively.
< >
< > The plotting commands
< >   x=0:0.1:2*pi;
< >   plot(2*sin(x));
< >   plot3(sin(x), cos(x), x);
< > work perfectly (via Aquaterm) when I run Octave interactively.
< >
< > On the other hand I often use Octave and Gnuplot (separately) via the
< > shebang lines
< >   #!/usr/local/bin/octave
< >   #!/usr/local/bin/gnuplot
< > The octave and gnuplot files here are symbolic links to the
< > corresponding files in the Octave and Gnuplot applications. On my
< > system calling gnuplot from octave via the shebang line:
< >   #!/usr/local/bin/octave
< >   x=0:0.1:2*pi;
< >   plot(2*sin(x));
< >   plot3(sin(x), cos(x), x);
< > produces nothing. What do I need to add to make this octave/gnuplot
< > combination work? Am I just missing some output file line?

When you say 'produces nothing' do you mean that octave starts up and
then exits without apparently opening a plot window?

What happens when you add

print -deps "plot.eps"; 

to the bottom of your script? 

Leo

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