Re: Octave.app 2.9.13 for Mac OS X

[Vic Norton]

The new octave-2.9.13 app works for me too, Henry. Right out of the box.

I have gnuplot 4.2.0 installed, so I didn't install the gnuplot-4.2.0  
app.

A couple of curiosities.

   1. The older octave-2.9.12 app did not work with my gnuplot 4.2.0.
      When I would try
         octave-2.9.12> plot (rand(100,1))
      I would get an error message:
         terminal "dumb" does not support continuous colors
      and an ascii plot in terminal.

      Now octave-2.9.13 app works the way I would like it to. The
      command
         octave-2.9.13> plot (rand(100,1))
      opens up AquaTerm and draws a nice graph (with no error message).

   2. There do seem to some differences between the graph produced by
      my unix installation of octave 2.9.9 and that produced by the
      octave-2.9.13 app:

      The command
         octave> plot(rand(100,1))                     (octave 2.9.9)
      produces a Figure 0 with a "line 1" key in red (gnuplot line-type
      1).

      The command
         octave-2.9.13> plot(rand(100,1))         (octave-2.9.13 app)
      produces a Figure 1 with no key in a light blue that does seem to
      correspond to any line-type shown in the Figure 0 produced by
         gnuplot> test

      I'm not quite sure what is going on here. I guess some internal
      octave parameters are set differently. I wonder what the default
      line-type is in the octave-2.9.13 app. Perhaps I should install
      the gnuplot-4.2.0 app that came with the octave-2.9.13 app
      "Extras" and see what this does with "test". (I just did the
      gnuplot-4.2.0 app installation. The "test" results are the same.)

Regards,

Vic

On Jul 28, 2007, at 9:57 PM, Henry F. Mollet wrote:

> Great; way to go on a Mac!
> On an older iMac (however, OS X 10.4.10) with octave 2.1.73 in
> /usr/local/bin and octave 2.9.12 in Application folder installed,  
> (plus
> gnuplot 4.0 in /usr/local/bin), I trashed octave-2.9.12 application  
> and
> installed both octave-2.9.13 app and gnuplot-4.2.0 app.  
> Installation was
> quick and successful.
> Henry
>
> Last login: Sat Jul 28 18:19:31 on ttyp1
> exec '/Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/bin/octave'
> Welcome to Darwin!
> cut
>  [~] -bash-2.05b 234$ exec
> '/Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/bin/octave'
> GNU Octave, version 2.9.13
>
> octave-2.9.13:1> figure (1);plot (1:10);
> octave-2.9.13:2> figure(2); plot (2:12);
> octave-2.9.13:3> figure (1); hold on; plot (2:13); hold off;
> octave-2.9.13:4> which gnuplot
> which: `gnuplot' is undefined
> # However, terminal window title had changed from octave-2.9.13 to
> #gnuplot-4.2.0 and plots appeared in AquaTerm windows.
>
> octave-2.9.13:5> quit
> [Process completed]
>
> Last login: Sat Jul 28 18:19:34 on ttyp2
> exec '/Applications/GnuPlot.app/Contents/Resources/bin/gnuplot'
> Welcome to Darwin!
>
>  [~] -bash-2.05b 235$ exec
> '/Applications/GnuPlot.app/Contents/Resources/bin/gnuplot'
>
>         G N U P L O T
>         Version 4.2 patchlevel 0
>         last modified March 2007
>         System: Darwin 8.10.0
>
> cut
>
> Terminal type set to 'aqua'
> gnuplot> plot sin(x)
> gnuplot>
>
>
> on 7/28/07 8:47 AM, Thomas Treichl at address@hidden wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I just uploaded Octave.app 2.9.13 to the sourceforge's server.  
> > Some of the
> > most
> > recent changes against Octave.app 2.9.12 are:
> >
> > - the latest Octave 2.9.13 codes available have been used to  
> > create the
> > binaries.
> >
> > - the name octave.app changed to Octave.app (links that point to  
> > octave.app or
> > to another file within octave.app may be broken because of the  
> > upper-case
> > letter
> > at the beginning). Future versions of Octave.app will also start  
> > with an
> > upper-case letter...
> >
> > - a pre-release version of Gnuplot.app is in the dmg. Read the  
> > Readme.html
> > file
> > of octave-2.9.13-XXX.dmg about 'when to set it up' and 'how to set  
> > it up for
> > Octave'. Other details are in the Readme.html file of  
> > gnuplot-4.2.0-XXX.dmg.
> >
> > That's it from my side,
> >
> >    Thomas
> >
> >
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