Re: null terminal?

[Ethan M. <eam...@gm...>]

On Monday, February 14, 2011, Tait wrote:
> 
> As gnuplot allows more and more to be done within the program itself,
> constructs like this are increasingly frequent:
> 
> > set term dumb
> > min=10**10
> > plot 'disy.100' u ($3<min?min=$3:min=min,$1):3
> >
> > set term x11
> > plot 'disy.100' u 1:($3/min)
> 
> Should we perhaps create a null terminal (that silently discards
> everything, like /dev/null) to facilitate iterating over files like
> above? 

That was part of what the "stats" patchset was intended for.
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2894333&group_id=2055&atid=302055
I don't know what's happened to the people who were preparing that
for inclusion in CVS; it's gone silent.