Re: Save a plot to .ps

[John W. Eaton]

On 28-May-1999, Thomas Hoffmann <address@hidden> wrote:

| > That is not what I meant. Printing could still be done by an m-file
| > which comes/comes-not whith octave. 
| > 
| > Can I find out which terminal gnuplot is using?
| > If yes, that would be really easy.
| It depends.
| 
| You can ask for the active terminal with "gshow terminal", e.g.:
| 
| octave:2> 
|         terminal type is x11 
| 
| Typical "screen terminals" are x11 or pm (OS/2-PM). But maybe you just want 
to 
| restore the terminal that was used immediately before issuing the print 
| command. I do not know if it is possible to parse the gshow output in octave.

Not currently, because Octave communicates with gnuplot using popen,
which only provides one-way communication.

jwe