Re: gnuplot and DISPLAY

[Allin C. <cot...@wf...>]

On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Ethan A Merritt wrote:

> On Friday 09 March 2007 05:39, Allin Cottrell wrote:
>>
>> I may have misdescribed the outcome, but in the context of a
>> configure check this is what I had in mind:
>>
>> echo "set term png" | gnuplot 2>/dev/null && echo "OK"
>> echo "set term foo" | gnuplot 2>/dev/null && echo "OK"
>>
>> The first command echoes "OK", the second doesn't.
>
> Can you point to any place in the documentation that supports
> this idea?  I have been looking, and can't find anything that
> would give the impession that such a test would work.

No, I haven't looked for this in the docs, I just noticed that it 
worked.  Thanks for your further suggestions.

Allin Cottrell