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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{p}, @var{x}, @var{y})
+## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} line (@var{p}, @var{x}, @var{y}, @var{z})
+## Create line object from @var{x} and @var{y} with parent @var{p}.
+## Return handle to line object.
+## @end deftypefn
+
+## Author: jwe
+
+function h = __line__ (p, varargin)
+
+  if (nargin < 1)
+    print_usage ();
+  endif
+
+  nvargs = numel (varargin);
+
+  if (nvargs > 1 && isnumeric (varargin{1}) && isnumeric (varargin{2}))
+    if (nvargs > 2 && isnumeric (varargin{3}))
+      num_data_args = 3;
+    else
+      num_data_args = 2;
+    endif
+  else
+    num_data_args = 0;
+  endif
+
+  if (rem (nvargs - num_data_args, 2) == 0)
+  else
+    print_usage ("line");
+  endif
+
+  h = __go_line__ (p);
+
+  if (num_data_args > 1)
+    set (h, "xdata", varargin{1}, "ydata", varargin{2});
+    if (num_data_args == 3)
+      set (h, "zdata", varargin{3});
+    endif
+  endif
+
+  if (nvargs > num_data_args)
+    set (h, varargin{num_data_args+1:end});
+  endif
+
+endfunction