What Graphics options are available?

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What Graphics options are available?

A) To see what graphics drivers are available type ? at the promt for the graph type and this will give you a list.

Here are some of those:-

   ps      -> Postscript
   cps     -> Colour Postscript
   x11     -> X display. (also called xterm and xwindows)
   hpgl    -> HP Laserjet III, HPGL emulation mode.
   png     -> PNG (you will need png, z and gd libraries for this)
   tek     -> Tektronix Terminal
   none    -> None.
   data    -> Writes out points to a file for graphs.
   meta    -> plplot meta file.

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