Re: OS X errors. plot, aquaterm, x11, ls, display. possibly related, possibly not.

[Henry F. Mollet]

If I remember correctly, I made recommended changes to figure.m in Jan. 2004
so it would work with AquaTerm but gave up. I'm still setting my AquaTerm
windows using "gset term aqua 10" for a window labeled "Figure 10".
Henry


on 11/3/04 12:47 PM, Joe Koski at address@hidden wrote:

> Dj,
> 
> It appears that the Fink version of octave still doesn't fully recognize
> AquaTerm. If you have X11 installed, you could try running octave from an
> X11 xterm to see if the error goes away. I got the error message that you
> are now getting with my octave-2.1.46 before I upgraded to 2.1.57 via
> downloaded binary files.
> 
> Look around the /sw octave installation directory for a folder that has Mac
> specific items for octave. There is a special older version of figure.m that
> works with AquaTerm included with the older versions. If you find it, try
> copying the Mac specific version of figure.m to your local problem directory
> as a temporary fix. (Octave always looks first in the local directory for .m
> routines.) If that solves the problem, then you need figure out how to
> change some permissions and copy (or sudo cp) the figure.m to make the Mac
> figure.m the default on your system.
> 
> Good luck.
> 
> Joe
> 
> on 11/3/04 12:20 PM, dj at address@hidden wrote:
> 
>> Sorry but please excuse my inexperience, I am trying hard to do
>> something about it ;-)
>> 
>> Hi, I am having some difficulties with my installation of octave under
>> OS X  3.5 I installed it via fink and have managed to get it to do
>> quite a few things, but I now need to run a few prewritten matlab
>> scripts as part of my course - wave plotting stuff.
>> 
>>   the first function, begins as such after defining some variables,
>> spitting back the following errors:
>> 
>>   octave:1> figure(1)
>>   error: figure: requires X11 and valid DISPLAY
>>   error: evaluating if command near line 42, column 7
>>   error: evaluating if command near line 41, column 5
>>   error: evaluating if command near line 40, column 3
>>   error: called from `figure' in file
>> `/sw/share/octave/2.1.53/m/plot/figure.m'
>> 
>>   As far as I can tell from some other posts its a problem with
>> environment variables or setting something like that. Does anybody
>> explain in very simple terms how I could fix it please?
>> 
>> I did read a few posts in the history but confused with the arguments
>> between using the apple x11 and aquaterm (I have a fink installation
>> and so I have aqauterm). I dont really care which it plots to as long
>> as I can get the plots on screen, or even to a .ps file if it comes to
>> that. :-)
>> 
>>   Is it calling for display as in imagemagick display? if so, I
>> installed imagemagick also via fink and can use convert etc but cannot
>> launch dispaly because I get this error
>> 
>>   %Machine:~ me$ display
>>   %display: Unable to connect to X server ().
>> 
>> I don't know if this is related, or even relevant but ls will also not
>> work.
>> 
>>   Any explination of my problem would be appreciated, and any solutions
>> would be fantastic
>> 
>>   Cheers
>> 
>> 
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