Re: octave's graphics interface / linux operating system

[Francesco Potorti`]

>2.) is there a way to force octave to write it's gnuplot config file into a 
>gnuplot compiliant config file in order to simplify further gnuplot 
>processing of the data (and to not be forced to do everything manually)

This is not an answer to your question, but you may find the EPS Toolkit
useful.  It is a set of primitives that you can use to create an eps
plot.  You find it at http://www.epstk.de/, or as the octave-epstk package.

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