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PLSTART(3plplot)						    PLplot API							  PLSTART(3plplot)

NAME

       plstart - Initialization

SYNOPSIS

       plstart(device, nx, ny)

DESCRIPTION

       Alternative  to	plstar(3plplot) for initializing the plotting package.	The device name keyword for the desired output device must be sup-
       plied as an argument.  The device keywords are the same as those printed out by plstar(3plplot).  If the requested device is not available,
       or  if the input string is empty or begins with ``?'', the prompted startup of plstar(3plplot) is used.	This routine also divides the out-
       put device into nx by ny subpages, each of which may be used independently.  The subroutine pladv(3plplot) is used to advance from one sub-
       page to the next.

       Redacted form:  General: plstart(device, nx, ny) Perl/PDL: plstart(nx, ny, device)

       This function is not used in any examples.

ARGUMENTS

       device (const char *, input)
	      Device name (keyword) of the required output device.  If NULL or if the first character is a ``?'', the normal (prompted) startup is
	      used.

       nx (PLINT, input)
	      Number of subpages to divide output page in the horizontal direction.

       ny (PLINT, input)
	      Number of subpages to divide output page in the vertical direction.

AUTHORS

       Geoffrey Furnish and Maurice LeBrun wrote and maintain PLplot.  This man page was automatically generated from the DocBook  source  of  the
       PLplot documentation, maintained by Alan W. Irwin and Rafael Laboissiere.

SEE ALSO

       PLplot documentation at http://plplot.sourceforge.net/resources.

								   August, 2012 						  PLSTART(3plplot)

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PLINIT(3plplot) 						    PLplot API							   PLINIT(3plplot)

NAME

       plinit - Initialize PLplot

SYNOPSIS

       plinit()

DESCRIPTION

       Initializing the plotting package.  The program prompts for the device keyword or number of the desired output device.  Hitting a RETURN in
       response to the prompt is the same as selecting the first device.  plinit(3plplot) will issue no prompt if either the device was  specified
       previously  (via command line flag, the plsetopt(3plplot) function, or the plsdev(3plplot) function), or if only one device is enabled when
       PLplot is installed.  If subpages have been specified, the output device is divided into nx by ny subpages, each of which may be used inde-
       pendently.   If plinit(3plplot) is called again during a program, the previously opened file will be closed.  The subroutine pladv(3plplot)
       is used to advance from one subpage to the next.

       Redacted form: plinit()

       This function is used in all of the examples.

AUTHORS

       Geoffrey Furnish and Maurice LeBrun wrote and maintain PLplot.  This man page was automatically generated from the DocBook  source  of  the
       PLplot documentation, maintained by Alan W. Irwin and Rafael Laboissiere.

SEE ALSO

       PLplot documentation at http://plplot.sourceforge.net/resources.

								   August, 2012 						   PLINIT(3plplot)
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