Re: Save a plot to .ps

[John W. Eaton]

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

| Because we do start with a known terminal type (x11, pm or so) on 
| any system

We do?  Octave doesn't know about any terminal setting commands that
might happen to be in a user's .gnuplot file.

| and then change this only by means of gset terminal ...,
| it could be possible to keep track of the actual terminal type by 
| introducing a "gnuplot_terminal" variable in octave which is changed 
| with every call of gset terminal and can be used by an eventual 
| print function ...

This part is already (partially) done, so that if someone does a `gset
term ...' and then gnuplot dies, the terminal type is restored when
gnuplot is restarted.  But the internal value is not initialized to
anything, because Octave doesn't know what the initial value of the
terminal type should be.

jwe