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New Install - nothing happens for plot command
From: |
John W. Eaton |
Subject: |
New Install - nothing happens for plot command |
Date: |
Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:08:39 -0500 |
On 7-Feb-2008, eli brossell wrote:
| I installed octave 2.1.73 and gnuplot 4.2.2-1 today as part of a new
i686-pc-cygwin installation. I've been trying to do some simple plots just to
see how things work. Nothing is happening when I enter the plot command. The
lines below are an example of what I'm entering after starting octave in cygwin.
|
| octave:1> a = [1 2 3];
| octave:2> b = [2 3 4];
| octave:3> plot(a,b)
| octave:4>
|
| I was expecting another window to open as a result of line 3. Is that
wrong? I've reinstalled gnuplot and octave through the cygwin setup executable
a couple of times with various mirrors and both http and ftp. Any help would
be greatly appreciated.
Did you start an X server before running Octave?
However, as Michael said, the 2.1.73 binary in Cygwin is obsolete.
jwe