Re: gnuplot not working on Mac OSX 10.9.5

[Ben Abbott]

> On Apr 6, 2015, at 4:39 AM, Brian Kaczynski <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Hello All,
> 
> After downloading/installing GNU_Octave_3.8.0-6.dmg on my MacBook Air with 
> OSX version 10.9.5 I'm getting the following error when I try to plot 
> something:
> 
> octave:13> x = (0:1023)/1024;
> octave:14> plot(x,sin(x))
> gnuplot> set terminal aqua enhanced title "Figure 1"  font "*,6" dashlength 1
>                       ^
>          line 0: unknown or ambiguous terminal type; type just 'set terminal' 
> for a list
> octave:15> 
> 
> Does anyone have any idea how to fix this?
> 
> Thanks,
> -Brian

Gnuplot is telling you that it wasn't built with support for Mac OSX's native 
"aqua".

First we should check which gnuplot Octave is finding.

What does ...

        [a, b] = system ("which gnuplot")

... return?

Ben