Re: two questions -- one remaining

[Joe Koski]

Henry,

Could the input text file have the wrong line endings for your machine? I
have all sorts of problems when my octave file line endings aren't set for
for UNIX.
 
Joe

on 9/12/05 8:41 PM, Henry F. Mollet at address@hidden wrote:

> I don't have an explanation but I tried your script as is and got nothing
> i.e. no plots nor any errors. Then I replaced the first figure statement
> with gset term aqua and "all hell broke loose". I've repeated it twice with
> same results.
> There is however no invalid character character at line 2:
> octave:7>   fprintf('\nMINE MANAGEMENT MODEL\n')
> MINE MANAGEMENT MODEL
> Therefore the error must be elsewhere. I would proceed line by line to find
> the error.
> Henry
> %  figure(1);       % line 42
> gset term aqua 1    % new line 43
> octave:7> mine
> error: invalid character `\r' (ASCII 13) near line 2, column 18
> parse error near line 2 of file /Users/hfm/Documents/CandO/mine.m
> 
>   xlabel('Stock'); ylabel('Extraction');
>                     ^
> 
> parse error near line 2 of file /Users/hfm/Documents/CandO/mine.m
> 
>   syntax error
> 
>   xlabel('Stock'); ylabel('Extraction');
>                                      ^
> 
> error: invalid character `\r' (ASCII 13) near line 2, column 36
> parse error near line 2 of file /Users/hfm/Documents/CandO/mine.m
> 
>   xlabel('Stock'); ylabel('Extraction');
>                                       ^
> 
> error: invalid character `\r' (ASCII 13) near line 2, column 71
> parse error near line 2 of file /Users/hfm/Documents/CandO/mine.m
> 
>   xlabel('Stock'); ylabel('Extraction');
>                                                                          ^
> 
> error: invalid character `\r' (ASCII 13) near line 2, column 107
> parse error near line 2 of file /Users/hfm/Documents/CandO/mine.m
> 
>   xlabel('Stock'); ylabel('Extraction');
>                  
> ^
> 
> error: invalid character `\r' (ASCII 13) near line 2, column 109
> parse error near line 2 of file /Users/hfm/Documents/CandO/mine.m
> 
>   xlabel('Stock'); ylabel('Extraction');
>                  
> ^
> 
> error: invalid character `\r' (ASCII 13) near line 2, column 110
> parse error near line 2 of file /Users/hfm/Documents/CandO/mine.m
> 
>   xlabel('Stock'); ylabel('Extraction');
>                  
> ^
> 
> 
> 
> 
> on 9/12/05 12:03 PM, address@hidden at address@hidden wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> thank your for your quick answers. I tried your suggestions, but still I have
>> the problem.
>> 
>> Joe:
>>> Klári,
>>> 
>>> In Octave, plotting is done with with a separate program, gnuplot.
>>> Whilemany of the plot commands are the same, the order of the
>>> commands differs.
>>> Try placing the plot command after the title, xlabel, etc. If you
>>> still have
>>> problems, try setting automatic_replot=0.
>>> 
>>> Joe
>> I have 2.1.71 version and octave-forge is also installed. I followed your
>> instructions but the problem remained. What I dont understand is that other
>> mfiles work pretty well with the same syntax for plot command.
>> 
>> 
>> Doug:
>>> The plot command automatically starts up GNUPLOT  and sends the
>>> info to 
>>> it through a pipe.
>>> 
>>> If after you have drawn a plot you then close GNUPLOT and try to
>>> plot 
>>> another plot it will act like you have reported.  So the solution
>>> is to 
>>> leave GNUPLOT there and let octave handle GNUPLOT.
>>> 
>>> If you have shut down GNUPLOT then you must restart Octave to get
>>> it 
>>> back again.
>>> Doug
>> I am sorry for being so beginner I do not even know how to close gnuplot. If
>> you think the commented line of the previous version of my mfile, so I
>> deleted
>> all close command from my file (this is a heritage from matlab:), restarted
>> octave and the problem remained.
>> 
>> I am very confused because it sometimes works, sometimes doesnot, I feel
>> myself very silly. Roughly I might say that plot command works pretty well at
>> the command line + in all other mfiles I have with the only exception I
>> mentioned last time. So I thought if some of you might have a good idea where
>> to start searching my mistakes...
>> 
>> thank you again 
>> 
>> Klári
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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