Re: Plotting with MacPorts Octave 3.8

[Ben Abbott]

On Aug 13, 2014, at 5:48 PM, Vic Norton <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Aug 13, 2014, at 7:41 AM, c. <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> On 12 Aug 2014, at 20:03, Vic Norton <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 
>>> I have no problems with the Octave 3.8.0 installed via the binary installer 
>>> at Octave Forge
>> 
>> In the binary installer I force Octave to plot using the gnuplot backend
>> and I force gnuplot to use the Qt terminal, try doing the same with the 
>> macports version:
>> 
>> close all
>> graphics_toolkit gnuplot
>> putenv GNUTERM qt
> 
> Unfortunately this doesn't help:
> 
>  octave> close all
>  octave> graphics_toolkit gnuplot
>  octave> putenv GNUTERM qt
>  octave> plot ([3,2,5])
>  ^C^CPress Control-C again to abort.
>  ^Cpanic: Interrupt: 2 -- stopping myself...
>  attempting to save variables to 'octave-workspace'...
>  save to 'octave-workspace' complete
> 
> Essentially nothing is saved to 'octave-workspace'.
> 
>>> http://tinyurl.com/kkcssnf
>> 
>> where did you get this shortcut url from?
>> 
>> c.
> 
> http://tinyurl.com
> 
> --
> Vic

Does gnuplot work for you?

        $ gnuplot
        plot sin(x)

Ben