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.TH driver 2 "April 1993" "Scilab Group" "Scilab Function"
.so ../sci.an
.SH NAME
driver - select a graphics driver
.SH CALLING SEQUENCE
.nf
driver(driver_name)
current_driver=driver()
.fi
.SH PARAMETERS 
.TP 13
driver_name 
: string, driver to be selected.
.SH DESCRIPTION
This function is used to select a graphics driver, or with no arguments 
to get the current graphics driver name.
Most of the time, a user can ignore this function and change the driver
by calling high level functions such as \fVxbasc\fR or \fVxbasimp\fR.
The selected driver can be one of the followings:
.TP 7
"X11"
: output to the screen of the computer.
.TP
"Pos" 
: output into Postscript format.
.TP
"Rec" 
: output to the screen of the computer with recording of all the graphics
commands. This is the default driver.
.TP
"Fig" 
: output into XFig format. Clipping of objects is not provided in XFig.
.TP
"GIF" 
: output into Gif format (beta test driver written by Tom Leitner 
(http://wiis.tu-graz.ac.at/people/tom.html).
Note that line thickness is not handled yet.
.SH SEE ALSO
xtape, xbasc, xbasimp
.SH AUTHOR
J.Ph.C.