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### 8.5 Output Modes

The plots generated by the plotting commands can be used in various different ways. One thing you might want to do is to write the output to a file in a given graphics format (`out`); another is to preview it directly on the screen (`swing`). By default one or other of these will happen depending on whether you specify an output file. However there are other possibilities; these are listed in the following subsections.

Except for display to the screen, these modes should work happily on a headless machine (one with no graphics display, as may be the case for a web server). When running headless, you may find it necessary to set the java system property "`java.awt.headless`" to `true` - see Section 3.3.

The default output mode is `auto`, which means that output is to a file if an output file is specified, or to the screen if it is not. So in most cases you don't need to specify the `omode` parameter explicitly.

- 8.5.1 `swing`
- 8.5.2 `out`
- 8.5.3 `cgi`
- 8.5.4 `discard`
- 8.5.5 `auto`

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