Re: default terminal?

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

On Wed, 9 Jan 2008, Ethan Merritt wrote:

> On Wednesday 09 January 2008, Allin Cottrell wrote:
> > Quick question: is there a way to determine non-interactively what
> > the default gnuplot terminal is?
> 
> On a linux system the default will be wxt if wxt is present at all.
> So you could do
>    ldd `which gnuplot` | grep wx
> If you get a non-empty result, then the default is wxt.
> 
> For that matter, if you are sitting at a terminal you could say:
> 
>   echo "show term" | gnuplot '-'
> 
> But I think this might not work from a script.

Thanks.  I wasn't very clear: the real task here is to find the 
information programmatically, for gnuplot running on somebody 
else's computer.  My experimentation, it seems that

echo "print GNUTERM" | gnuplot

does the job, at least for recent gnuplot.

Allin Cottrell