Document:     grdevices

Purpose:      The file grdevices, which resides in the gip_loc directory,
              describes the available graphics devices.

Category:     SYSTEM SETUP

Files:        grdevices.doc

Author:       K.G. Begeman

Description:  The graphics devices description consists of several fields,
              separated by colons (:). The fields contain the
              following information:
              field          information
                1            Name of host or list of hosts (separated by
                             comma's) or asterix (*) if device is for
                             all possible hosts.
                2            Type code of graphics device: possible
                             types are:
                                0 (Null device)
                                1 (Tektronix)
                                2 (PostScript Landscape)
                                3 (Postscript Portrait)
                                4 (Colour Postscript Landscape)
                                5 (Colour Postscript Portrait)
                                6 (Xterm in tektronix mode)
                                7 (GIDS in graphics mode)
                                8 (thermes tektronix window)
                                9 (PGPLOT X11 driver)
                3            Name of graphics device.
                4            Command to print hardcopy (if hardcopy
                             device) or name of physical device.
                5 (optional) Width of device in milli-inches
                6 (optional) Height of device in milli-inches
                7 (optional) Horizontal offset in milli-inches
                8 (optional) Vertical offset in milli-inches

              The last 4 fields are currently only used by the PostScript
              drivers.

Example:      *:0:NULL:
              *:1:TEKTRONIX:TEK_DEVICE
              brahe,kepler:2:L1LASER:lpr -r -Pps %s
              huygens,zanstra:2:L1LASER:lp -s -dps %s
              brahe,kepler:2:L2LASER:lpr -r -Pps2 %s
              huygens,zanstra:2:L2LASER:lp -s -dps2 %s
              *:2:lpsfile:echo Created file %s
              brahe,kepler:3:p1laser:lpr -r -Pps %s
              huygens,zanstra:3:p1laser:lp -s -dps %s
              brahe,kepler:3:p2laser:lpr -r -Pps2 %s
              huygens,zanstra:3:p2laser:lp -s -dps2 %s
              *:3:PPSFILE:echo Created file %s
              brahe,kepler:4:LCOLOUR:lpr -r -Pcps %s
              huygens,zanstra:4:LCOLOUR:lp -s -dcps %s
              *:4:LCPSFILE:echo Created file %s
              brahe,kepler:4:PCOLOUR:lpr -r -Pcps %s
              huygens,zanstra:4:PCOLOUR:lp -s -dcps %s
              *:5:PCPSFILE:echo Created file %s
              *:6:XTERM:/dev/tty
              *:7:GIDS:DEFAULT_DISPLAY
              *:8:THERTEK:THERTEK
              *:9:X11:PGWINDOW
 
Updates:      Jan 15, 1991: KGB, document created.
              Jan 18, 1993: KGB, example in document.
              Sep 15, 1993: KGB, device #9 implemented.
              Sep 21, 1993: KGB, size and offset for PostScript implemented.