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Re: set terminal windows

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On Friday, October 5, 2012 2:14:58 PM UTC+2, (unknown) wrote:
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> I'm trying to use Gnuplot with Octave. After quite a big number of tries, I found this funny thing:
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> The command "peaks" typed in Octave compiled with Microsoft Visual uses the 'wxt' terminal, wheras the Octave compiled with MinGW uses the 'windows' terminal.
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> The situation is the following: I need to use the Microsoft Visual package, but I want the 'windows' terminal of Gnuplot.
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> I have created a GNUPLOT.INI in C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming with the single line "set terminal windows". It works because after that, running directly Gnuplot and typing "plot sin(x)" uses the 'windows' terminal.
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> And the problem is that the "peaks" command still runs Gnuplot with the 'wxt' terminal. It seems that Gnuplot ignores this config file when called by Octave.
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> How to change this behaviour and use the 'windows' terminal when plotting from Octave? 
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> Thanks!

I'm replying to myself as it might help other people.

In fact, I have to use the following command in Octave:

    setenv ("GNUTERM", "windows");

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