Syntax: DEVICE META WORD DEVICE META CLOSE META READ WORD If you open the special device called META it doesn't close the current device, merely intercepts plotting commands and stores them away as well as executing them immediately. This continues until you issue a CLOSE command. The command META READ file reads a metafile and executes it on the current device. Because of the way that SM interrogates devices about their abilities, while using META all ltypes, lweights, and fonts will be emulated in software (this guarantees that the device you playback on will be able to handle the code). If the current device can handle dots (i.e. PTYPE 0 0) then META will attempt to use them too, but if it can't then META will be reduced to faking them. This could be a serious problem, so good luck. Metafiles do not support colour, again due to the impossibility of knowing if they will have the same behaviour as the original device.