Re: octave & octave-forge install instructions for Mac OS X 10.4.x

[Henry F. Mollet]

henry-f-mollets-emac:~ hfm$ gnuplot
bash: gnuplot: command not found
henry-f-mollets-emac:~ hfm$ bash --login
henry-f-mollets-emac:~ hfm$ gnuplot

        G N U P L O T
        Version 4.0 patchlevel 0

henry-f-mollets-emac:~ hfm$ export
declare -x DISPLAY=":0.0"
declare -x HOME="/Users/hfm"
declare -x LOGNAME="hfm"
declare -x MANPATH="/usr/man:/usr/X11R6/man"
declare -x OLDPWD
declare -x PATH="/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin"
declare -x PWD="/Users/hfm"
declare -x SECURITYSESSIONID="b86380"
declare -x SHELL="/bin/bash"
declare -x SHLVL="2"
declare -x TERM="xterm"
declare -x USER="hfm"
declare -x WINDOWID="6291470"
declare -x __CF_USER_TEXT_ENCODING="0x1F5:0:0"
henry-f-mollets-emac:~ hfm$

Joe Koski is using the rxvt X11 terminal which probably does not have this
odd behavior of having to force things to be read in. He also said that it
has the scroll bar on the right and that the terminal behaves more like
expected and he built it from source.

For setting scroll bar etc. on Apple's xterm see
http://www.abbeyworkshop.com/howto/macosx/x11Term/

Thanks, Henry


on 7/3/05 12:15 PM, Marius Schamschula at address@hidden wrote:
> Henry,
> This is a known issue with Apple's xterm. By default it seems not to
> read your .bash_proflie. I usually do a
> 
> bash --login
> 
> to force things to be read in.
> 
> Marius
> --
> Marius Schamschula                               Webmaster
> 
>          The Huntsville Macintosh Users Group
>                      www.hmug.org
> 
> webmaster at hmug dot org    marius at schamschula dot com
> 
> 
> On Jul 2, 2005, at 1:00 PM, Henry F. Mollet wrote:
> 
>> I used X11 and tried to run octave and gnuplot in the X11/xterm
>> terminal.
>> Octave worked but would not plot because it now could not find
>> gnuplot. Then
>> I opened gnuplot and I could do a plot.
>> 
>> I must also have to set the path someplace for both octave and gnuplot
>> because I had to use /urs/local/bin/octave or gnuplot to open these
>> applications in the xterm terminal.
>> Henry
> 





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