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<DIV>I can't speak for Vista (I unintalled Vista a year ago due to distain for the OS). However, under XP, here's what I did (I'm using Scilab 5.1.1 but any 5.x should work:</DIV>
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<DIV>1) Under C:\Program Files\scilab-5.1.1\contrib I extracted the contents of the plotlib zip file and renamed the extracted folder to</DIV>
<DIV> "plotlib021". Note that if you use the Windows extractor, you end up with an intermediate folder and may need to move the contents "up"</DIV>
<DIV> one folder so you have, under "plotlib021", folders "help", "jar", "macros", "man" and a few files to go with the rest.</DIV>
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<DIV>2) In the path C:\Documents and Settings\<userid>\Application Data\Scilab\scilab-5.1.1 where "<userid>" is your Windows XP id, I have created</DIV>
<DIV> the Scilab startup file .scilab. The Scilab documentation is somewhat confusing about the proper startup file naming convention for</DIV>
<DIV> Windows under Scilab 5.x (I think this is the 4.x convention that was kept in the 5.x version and the developers are moving to an XML</DIV>
<DIV> based startup file; perhaps the documentation hasn't quite caught up or I missed that discussion. That said, ".scilab" worked for me.</DIV>
<DIV> Note also that you cannot simply use Windows file manager to create this file. File manager does not allow you to create file with and</DIV>
<DIV> extention only. I had to use a DOS shell.</DIV>
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<DIV>3) Inside the file .scilab I place the following:</DIV>
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<DIV> exec "C:\Program Files\scilab-5.1.1\contrib\plotlib021\loader.sce"<BR></DIV>
<DIV>Before you can use plotlib, you have to execute the file C:\Program Files\scilab-5.1.1\contrib\plotlib021\builder.sce as described in the</DIV>
<DIV>plotlib documentation. </DIV>
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<DIV>Once I did the above, everytime I start Scilab, I get the message: "loading plotlib version 0.21" and I'm good to go.</DIV>
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<DIV>I hope this helps,</DIV>
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<DIV>Dave</DIV></html>