# Copyright (C) 1996 John W. Eaton
# 
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function zlabel (text)

# usage: zlabel (text)
#
# Defines a label for the z-axis of a plot.  The label will appear the
# next time a plot is displayed.
#
# See other plotting commands also.

# Written by Vinayak Dutt, Dutt.Vinayak@mayo.EDU  3 Jul 95 

  if (nargin != 1)
    usage ("zlabel (text)");
  endif

  if (isstr (text))
    eval (sprintf ("set zlabel \"%s\"", text));
  else
    error ("error: zlabel: text must be a string");
  endif

endfunction