Re: another "gset term" replacement question

[Ben Abbott]

>  On Tuesday, September 29, 2009, at 01:28PM, <address@hidden 
> > wrote:
>
> I often have a need to run octave scripts in the background,  
> sometimes scripts that make plots. With octave 2.x, I would preceed  
> any such plotting with "gset term postscript".
>
> Now that gset is gone, I do the plotting and the use "print -dpsc"  
> to put it into a postscript file. But if I try to run such a script  
> in background, it hangs when it gets to the plotting.
>
> How can I direct the script to make the plot postscript in the first  
> place? Or is there any other way to stop it from hanging? Is there  
> any way to control where octave's invocation of gnuplot tries to put  
> the plot?
>
> Thanks,
> Dave Cottingham

To produce a postscript output ...

        print -dpsc file.ps

To suspend generation of figures on screen, you can try ...

        close all
        set (0, "defaultfigurevisible", "off")

To continue with plots to the screen ...

        close all
        set (0, "defaultfigurevisible", "on")

Ben