1PLSTART(3plplot)                  PLplot API                  PLSTART(3plplot)
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NAME

6       plstart - Initialization
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SYNOPSIS

9       plstart(device, nx, ny)
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DESCRIPTION

12       Alternative  to  plstar(3plplot) for initializing the plotting package.
13       The device name keyword for the desired output device must be  supplied
14       as  an argument.  The device keywords are the same as those printed out
15       by plstar(3plplot).  If the requested device is not  available,  or  if
16       the input string is empty or begins with ``?'', the prompted startup of
17       plstar(3plplot) is used.  This routine also divides the  output  device
18       into  nx  by ny subpages, each of which may be used independently.  The
19       subroutine pladv(3plplot) is used to advance from one  subpage  to  the
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22       Redacted  form:  General: plstart(device, nx, ny) Perl/PDL: plstart(nx,
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26       This function is not used in any examples.
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ARGUMENTS

29       device (const char *, input)
30              Device name (keyword) of the required output device.  If NULL or
31              if the first character is a ``?'', the normal (prompted) startup
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35              Number of subpages to  divide  output  page  in  the  horizontal
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39              Number  of subpages to divide output page in the vertical direc‐
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AUTHORS

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

50       PLplot documentation at http://plplot.sourceforge.net/resources.
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54                                  March, 2007                 PLSTART(3plplot)
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