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+## Copyright (C) 2005 John W. Eaton
+##
+## This file is part of Octave.
+##
+## Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+## under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+## the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
+## any later version.
+##
+## Octave is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+## WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
+## General Public License for more details.
+##
+## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+## along with Octave; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to the Free
+## Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA
+## 02110-1301, USA.
+
+## -*- texinfo -*-
+## @deftypefn {Function File} {} line (@var{x}, @var{y})
+## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} line (@var{x}, @var{y}, @var{z})
+## Create line object from @var{x} and @var{y} and insert in current
+## axes object.  Return handle to line object.
+## @end deftypefn
+
+## Author: jwe
+
+function h = line (varargin)
+
+  nargs = nargin;
+
+  if (nargs > 1)
+    if (isnumeric (varargin{1}) && isnumeric (varargin{2}))
+      ## make a default line object, and make it the current axes for
+      ## the current figure.
+      ca = gca ();
+      s = __uiobject_line_ctor__ (ca);
+      s.xdata = varargin{1};
+      s.ydata = varargin{2};
+      num_data_args = 2;
+      if (nargs > 2 && isnumeric (varargin{3}))
+	s.zdata = varargin{3};
+	num_data_args = 3;
+      endif
+      tmp = __uiobject_make_handle__ (s);
+      if (nargs > num_data_args)
+	set (tmp, varargin{num_data_args+1:end});
+      endif
+      __uiobject_adopt__ (ca, tmp);
+      if (nargout > 0)
+	h = tmp;
+      endif
+    else
+      error ("expecting numeric arguments for line data");
+    endif
+  else
+    print_usage ();
+  endif
+
+endfunction