On Sat, 29 Mar 2003, Alexander Hansen wrote:

> On Sat, 29 Mar 2003, Allin Cottrell wrote:
>
> > I recently installed the latest stable Fink over OS X 10.2.4 and
> > Apple's X11 beta3.
> >
> > There are a couple of things I'm having difficulty with.
> >
> > 1. How do I get my default shell for xterm changed?  I changed my
> > default to /bin/bash in Netinfo (also in /etc/passwd for good
> > measure).  The Mac Terminal app respects this choice, but when I start
> > X11 the xterm still comes up with tcsh as the shell.
>
> This may be an Apple X11 quirk.  What happens if you start an xterm from a
> Terminal.app window (making sure that X11 is running and your DISPLAY is
> set)?

Actually this seems to have sorted itself after rebooting.  Previously
I had stopped and re-started X11, but perhaps the old login info was
cached somehow.

> > 2. Gnuplot as installed via Fink (version 3.8h) is behaving oddly.  I
> > need to be able to use it in batch mode, but that's not working.  For
> > example, I created a trivial input file, foo.gp, as follows:
> >
> > set term png
> > set output 'foo.png'
> > plot sin(x)
> >
> > When I do "gnuplot foo.gp" at the command prompt I expect for gnuplot
> > to silently create foo.png (as it does on Linux and on Windows), but
> > what actually happens is that an interactive gnuplot session starts in
> > the terminal window, showing the message "terminal type 'unknown'".
> >
> I tried this, and it worked normally for me.  I'm using the xfree86 (4.3)
> package, rather than Apple X11...

I now have this working normally, after updating from the latest
stable Fink to the latest "unstable", with gnuplot 3.8i.

Allin Cottrell.


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