Example plot in Manual lacks text

[Ben Abbott]

On Apr 7, 2009, at 4:37 AM, Ben Abbott wrote:

> On Apr 6, 2009, at 8:25 PM, Michael D. Godfrey wrote:
>
>>>
>>> I'll try writing a function that is able to use the output from  
>>> "set terminal" to compose a list of available terminals.
>>
>> Good idea.  Asking "set terminal" looks like the only reliable  
>> source of information.
>
> I'm not very knowledgeable in pipes, popen, popen2, and such.
>
> When I tried to do this the output from "set terminal;" displays to  
> the command line (skips the pipe).
>

The example below illustrates the problem.

	more off
	[status, output] = system ("more off; gnuplot -e \"set terminal; quit 
\"");

The "output" is empty, and the terminal list is displayed.

Ben