From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Fri Jan 10 10:33:17 2003
Subject: Re: How to detect terminal type?
From: "E. Joshua Rigler" <Jrigler at colorado dot edu>
To: Peter Brinkmann <brinkman at math dot uiuc dot edu>
Cc: Help-Octave <help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
Date: 10 Jan 2003 09:21:34 -0700

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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