I will check the various suggested options to the terminal-only version
that came with distribution.
The thing that had me wondering if I was missing an environment
variable for this emacs was a problem earlier in the day, when through
trial and error and some lucky searching I found I needed to set
export GNUPLOT_DRIVER_DIR=/Applications/GnuPlot.app/Contents/Resources/libexec/gnuplot/4.2
export GNUTERM=x11
after downloading the Oct 2007 binaries for octave-2.9.15:1, which included
binaries for gnuplot as part of that download.
That leads to my next question. I thought I once saw somebody running a
gnuplot version that supported line types with dashing and dot-dash, etc.
I would have assumed this Oct 2007 download would be the latest and greatest,
and the latest and greatest would include better line types... but it does not
seem to.
Does anybody know of a gnuplot that supports these line types in X11
on Mac OS X?
Thanks again
(My eventual goal is to be able to reuse a large library of Matlab code on
my home iMac. My first couple days with this octave and gnuplot version
and some trial Matlab code leads me to believe that while number crunching
and data manipulation seems fine with little code translation, I will be
losing a lot of graphing/plotting features coded into my original Matlab code.)