LS,
with the current octave, I get this octave strcat
error on plot, both with xterm and the dumb terminal.
Same error on two different windows XP systems.
Same error with libstdc++6 and libgfortran3 from cygwin-ports gcc 4.5.2-2
Teun
$ octave
GNU Octave, version 3.4.0
Copyright (C) 2011 John W. Eaton and others.
[snip]
octave:1> t=(0:0.1:2*pi);
octave:2> plot(t,sin(t))
error: Invalid call to strcat. Correct usage is:
-- Function File: strcat (S1, S2, ...)
error: called from:
error: /usr/share/octave/3.4.0/m/help/print_usage.m at line 87, column 5
error: /usr/share/octave/3.4.0/m/strings/strcat.m at line 92, column 5
error: /usr/share/octave/3.4.0/m/plot/__gnuplot_get_var__.m at line 113,
column 11
error: /usr/share/octave/3.4.0/m/plot/__go_draw_axes__.m at line 40,
column 18
error: /usr/share/octave/3.4.0/m/plot/__go_draw_figure__.m at line 167,
column 19
error: /usr/share/octave/3.4.0/m/plot/__gnuplot_drawnow__.m at line 86,
column 5
octave:3> quit
BURGERS@P4949 ~
$ echo $TERM $DISPLAY
xterm :0
BURGERS@P4949 ~
$ cygcheck -c octave liblapack0 cygwin libqrupdate0 libgfortran3 libstdc++
gnuplot
Cygwin Package Information
Package Version Status
cygwin 1.7.9-1 OK
gnuplot 4.4.0-1 OK
libgfortran3 4.3.4-4 OK
liblapack0 3.2.2-2 OK
libqrupdate0 1.1.1-1 OK
octave 3.4.0-3 OK