FINDG(lNCARG)

💖 FINDG — ok bestie, time to find those ancient calls 💖

Hey hi hello 🫶 so this one lives in the lNCARG manual, and its whole entire personality is: it locates calls to all entries in pre-GKS NCAR Graphics. Like a little detective 🕵️♀️ but for your FORTRAN, fr fr.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

findg <fortran-file

That's it. That's the whole vibe. 👑

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Okay so here's the tea ☕ — findg reads an input FORTRAN file, fortran-file, straight from standard input, and then prints out those lines (along with their line numbers, bestie, so you know exactly where the crime scene is 🔍) which contain calls to old plotting entries from the pre-GKS NCAR plot package.

Why do you care? Because if you're doing conversions to GKS, you should literally examine these calls for possible changes. Main character energy: inspect your own code. 💅

Now, the good news — many entries will require no change ✨ so don't panic, okay? Not everything needs surgery.

But for the details on the changes that are needed, go read the "Conversion Guide" section of the Version 2.00 User's Guide. That's where the lore lives, iykyk 📖

🚨 Pro tip from the manual itself: if the single character $ is read in column 1 of any input line, then a complete list of the entry points being searched for is printed, and execution is terminated. So yes, $ in column 1 = instant printout + we're done here, periodt. 💀✨

👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

Copyright (C) 1987-2002 University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

The use of this Software is governed by a License Agreement.

and that's the whole page, bestie 🎀 this was NCAR, NOVEMBER 1989, signing off — slay, stay converted, and always check column 1 🦋💜