NCARGFILE(1NCARG)

💖 NAME 💖

ncargfile — the NCAR Graphics Files girlie ✨ like, it gets you your special files, bestie, that's the whole vibe 🎀

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

ncargfile [-all] file ...

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so ncargfile is literally your backstage pass 🎟️ to the special NCAR Graphics files and tables. What it does: it copies the file(s) you name straight into your current directory. That's it. That's the job. Iconic behavior, no notes 💅

⚠️ but bestie, listen — to even run ncargfile, you NEED your NCARG_ROOT environment variable set to the directory pathname where the NCAR Graphics libraries, binaries, and include files were installed. Not optional. Non-negotiable. fr fr.

If you're sitting there like "…and what exactly am I supposed to set NCARG_ROOT to??" 😭 — please go check with your system administrator, or the site representative for NCAR Graphics. They know. They hold the answers. 🫶

And here's the plot twist 🌀: if the NCAR Graphics libraries, binaries, and include files were not installed under one single root directory, then you're gonna need to set these environment variables instead:

• NCARG_LIB
• NCARG_BIN
• NCARG_INCLUDE

For more info on all of that, go look at man ncargintro 👑 (yes, literally, "please see" it, I'm passing along the message).

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🦋 what's actually available rn 🦋

ngl, the selection is… small. Currently, only one table is available with ncargfile, and it's the table of Ezmap Area identifiers, called:

ezmap_area_ids

That's the whole menu. One item. It ate though. 💀🍓

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• Online: ncargex(1NCARG), ncargintro(5NCARG)
• Hardcopy: NCAR Graphics Fundamentals, UNIX Version; NCAR Graphics Contouring and Mapping Tutorial

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👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

Copyright (C) 1987-2002 University Corporation for Atmospheric Research The use of this Software is governed by a License Agreement.

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okay that's the whole page, you're welcome 💜 this was NCAR, and the version you're looking at is dated MARCH 1993 — yeah, she's vintage, she's still serving, mwah 🎀✨💅