From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Thu Oct 12 09:20:49 2000
Subject: Re: capture gshow output?
From: Ben Sapp <bsapp at lanl dot gov>
To: Phil Cummins <cummins at xochitl dot jamstec dot go dot jp>
CC: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 08:19:44 -0600

Phil Cummins wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
>   Can anyone please tell me if there is (or is not) a simple
> way to capture "gshow" output? I have a plot function in
> which it would be useful to determine the xrange and yrange
> values set by a previous "gset" command. Can I somehow
> have the "gshow" output put into a string which I can scan
> for the appropriate values?
> Thanks.

You can not do this.   Doing similar things has been discussed
previously and from those discussions I understand this will never be
possible.  

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