From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Mon Sep 22 08:27:20 2003
Subject: Re: svgalib
From: "A. S. Budden" <octave dot mail at southparade dot vispa dot com>
To: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu, "John W. Eaton" <jwe@bevo.che.wisc.edu>
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 14:24:40 +0100

Thus spake A. S. Budden:
> Thus spake John W. Eaton:
> > On 22-Sep-2003, A. S. Budden <octave dot mail at southparade dot vispa dot com> wrote:
> > 
> > > Can anyone help me with this problem please?
> > 
> > Does
> > 
> >   bash> echo "set term linux; plot sin(x);" | gnuplot
> > 
> > work on your system?
> 
> Does a similar thing to starting in octave -- [svgalib: allocated
> virtual console #8] and on virtual console 8 I get the gnuplot window
> but no graph is seen.
> 
> I guess this is a gnuplot problem then.  I don't suppose you have any
> idea what's causing it do you?
> 
> Many thanks for your help,
> 
> Al

However, the following does work:

echo "set term linux; plot sin(x);" > test; gnuplot test

In case that helps at all

Al



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