PLINIT(3)                         PLplot API                         PLINIT(3)



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(3) will issue no prompt if either the device was specified
       previously (via command line flag, the plsetopt(3) function, or the
       plsdev(3) 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
       independently.  If plinit(3) is called again during a program, the
       previously opened file will be closed.  The subroutine pladv(3) 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.



                                November, 2007                       PLINIT(3)
