--- Ben Abbott wrote:
> On Mar 17, 2011, at 7:58 PM, findtype wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 7:06 PM, marco atzeri <
address@hidden> wrote:
> >> On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 9:42 PM, findtype wrote:
> >> > Hi,
> >> > I'm trying use Octave on Cygwin. The Octave plot function is generating a
> >> > "printer-plot" in the command window. How can I get a graphics window
> >> > opened to contain the plot?
> >> > Thanks for any help.
> >> > Ted
> >>
> >> something like
> >>
> >> octave:2> plot(x,x)
> >> warning: X11 DISPLAY environment variable not set
> >> ...
> >>
> >> You should start octave inside xterm (and with X11 server running of course ) .
> >>
> >> Marco
> >
> > Thank you for your reply. Yes, the warning about "X11 DISPLAY" is exactly what appears. But
> I'm working on a stand-alone PC running cygwin. So there's no "X11 server." Is there another
> way to get the octave plots?
> >
> > Ted
>
> I'm not a windows user, but ... sssuming you have gnuplot installed and that it was built to
> support the windows terminal, from Octave you can try ...
>
> close all
> setenv ("GNUTERM", "windows")
> plot (1:10)