--- findtype wrote:
> Thank you. I tried to install by running the setup. X11 was listed (so I
> re-installed it), but the setup list had no xterm, gnuplot, xorg-server, or
> xinit. How can I install these in order to get an xterm window?
> Ted
>
>
> 2011/3/18 Tatsuro MATSUOKA <
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>
> > Hello
> >
> > --- 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)
> >
> > Currently on windows, only cygwin version is avaiable for version 3.4.
> > Thus
> >
> > > setenv ("GNUTERM", "windows")
> >
> > is not correct.
> > For Cygwin, one should install X11 and gnuplot for cygwin by CYgwin setup
> > command.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Tatsuro
> >
> >
>