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

[dj]

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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