Identify auto tick locations

[Troy Henderson]

Is it possible to get Octave to return its automatic placement of tick
locations (both x and y) for a 2D graph without having to actually
plot something by simply providing an "axis range".  For example,
executing the command

axis([0 1 -4e4 4e4])

pops up a plot window where the x ticks (and labels) are located at
0,0.2,0.4,0.6,0.8,1 and the y ticks (and labels) are located at
-40000,-30000,-20000,-10000,0,10000,20000,30000,40000

Is there a command in Octave to retrieve these two lists without
having to open a plot window?

Thanks,

Troy Henderson