Re: How to detect terminal type?

[E. Joshua Rigler]

I have no idea what the default terminal is under Windows, but does the
"gshow term" command give you something useful?

-EJR


On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 09:21, Peter Brinkmann wrote:
> Hi!
> How can I detect the current terminal type?
> I'm asking because I sometimes need to change the terminal type
> in order to export plots to encapsulated PostScript, using a
> command like
>       gset terminal postscript
> On my Linux box, I can reset the terminal with a command like
>       gset terminal x11
> The problem is that this doesn't work under Windows. So, what
> I'd like to do is the following:
>       1. Detect and remember the current terminal type.
>       2. Export stuff to PostScript.
>       3. Reset the terminal type to what it was before.
> Is this possible at all?
> Thanks,
>       Peter
> 
> 
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