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Graphics Options and Device Parameters Dictionary

FILEONLY



Specifies whether a file or a storage location is the default destination for graphics output.
Used in: GOPTIONS statement
Default: device-dependent
Restriction: FILEONLY ignored if the device requires the output destination to be a storage location; not supported by Java or ActiveX
See also: DEVOPTS, GSFNAME

Syntax
Details

Syntax

FILEONLY | NOFILEONLY

FILEONLY

specifies that a file rather than a storage location is the default destination for graphics output.

NOFILEONLY

specifies that a storage location is the default destination for graphics output, unless a file of the same name exists.


Details

Most devices use FILEONLY as the default. However, devices that require the output destination to be a storage location use NOFILEONLY as the default. For example, the HTML device requires a storage location because it produces two types of output (HTML files and GIF image files) that cannot be written to the same file.

To determine what the default is for a particular device, look at the settings for DEVOPTS bits 48 and 49.

For more information, see Specifying the Graphics Output File Type for Your Graph.

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