From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Sun Dec 13 14:25:08 1998
Subject: Re: gset term linux
From: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian dot org>
To: Vitaliy A Repin <vitaly at radio dot hop dot stu dot neva dot ru>
Cc: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1998 15:23:11 -0500 (EST)


  Vitaliy>  Hm. If so then why can I say "gset term latex" in the Octave and
  Vitaliy> it works fine?

Latex mode just writes to a file, or stdout. That's quite different from
actually delivering a plot (in a hardware-dependent fashion) on the console.

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a degree of stability and an ability to scale up that NT cannot match.
                                             -- The Economist, Oct 3, 1998