From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Sat Jun 29 08:06:28 2002
Subject: Re: Gnuplot on Mac Os X
From: Per Persson <persquare at mac dot com>
To: Christian Meisenbichler <christian dot meisenbichler at uni-graz dot at>
Cc: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2002 15:05:41 +0200

Christian,

the version of gnuplot you use is the "Carbon" version which is a port 
of the pre OS X gnuplot for Mac. AFAIK this version does not work with 
octave yet. If you use the current unix gnuplot (3.8.x) it will work 
seamlessly with octave. However, unless you want to install XWindows 
you'll need AquaTerm to display the plots. See http://aquaterm.sf.net

If you are uncomfortable with compiling your own stuff or doesn't have 
the dev-tools installed you can use Fink (http://fink.sf.net) to install 
gnuplot/AquaTerm for you.

Please scan the docs/faq/lists of both AquaTerm and Fink for more info.

HTH,
Per


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On lördag, juni 29, 2002, at 01:41 , Christian Meisenbichler wrote:

> I try to use the gnuplot for mac to plot the graphics in octave. But it 
> doesnot work like I  want it to.
> There exists a command line interface for the mac version of gnuplot, 
> called "pgnuplot". when I simply make an alias called "gnuplot" 
> pointing to this tool, Octave  is able to send scripts to gnuplot, but 
> gnuplot can not find the data files in /var/temp. I think that the 
> files exist not long enough in order that they can be read by gnuplot 
> so i get:
>
> gnuplot> pl "/var/tmp/oct-001496" t "line 1" w lines 1
>             ^
>          can't read data file "/var/tmp/oct-001496"
>          "gnuplot_tempi01415", line 8: (No such file or directory)
>
> Has anybody some closer information on how the communication between 
> Octave and Gnuplot works, or have you already solved this problem?
> Thank you for any information.
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