How to prevent Aquaterm plotting from command-line processing?

[John Helly]

Hi.

This is a puzzle.  I'm running a script I've run many time without this happening but now I am getting Aquaterm plots to the console while running a bash script that invokes octave.  The plot syntax I'm using is like this:

figure;

hold on;

xlabel('Easting (m) [UTM11N]');

ylabel('Northing (m) [UTM11N]');

plot(X_START,Y_START,'*','color','blue')

plot(X_START,Y_START,'color','blue')

text(X_START+300,Y_START,TRANSECT);

plot(MOP_Easting, MOP_Northing,'color','red')

text(MOP_Easting(1)+300, MOP_Northing(1),INPUT_MOP_STATION,'color','red');

hold off;

FIGURE=strcat(OUTPUT_HOME,'/Profile_Map/',INPUT_MOP_STATION,'.ModelBeachProfileLocation.pdf');

print('-dpdf',FIGURE)

Since I'm writing to a file (*.pdf), I don't understand why octave is suddenly using aquaterm to plot to the terminal.  It produces hundreds of plots so this is a real problem for me.

Thanks.

Cheers.

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John Helly, University of California, San Diego / San Diego Supercomputer Center / Scripps Institution of Oceanography / 760 840 8660 mobile / stonesteps (Skype) / stonesteps7 (iChat) / http://www.sdsc.edu/~hellyj