maybe i am misunderstanding the draw option, but i was expecting that the following would give the same plots
t0 = c(0, .3, .4, .4)
t  = c(0, .3, .5, .5)
y  = c(0, 1, 2, 3)
plt(y, t, type="s", lty=5, draw = lines(y, t0, type="s"))
plt(y, t, type="s", lty=5)
lines(y, t0, type="s")