AGSAVE(3NCARG)

💾 AGSAVE — bestie, save your Autograph state rn

okay so this is a page from the NCAR Graphics manual, section 3NCARG, and it's all about AGSAVE. Girl, this routine is the "save your game before the boss fight" of Autograph — it snapshots the current state so AGRSTR can bring it back later. Obsessed. 💖

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✨ NAME ✨

AGSAVE — Saves the current state of Autograph for later restoration by AGRSTR.

(not me being the backup bestie of the Autograph world, fr fr 🫶)

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

CALL AGSAVE (IFNO)

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🦋 C-BINDING SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include <ncarg/ncargC.h>

void c_agsave (int ifno)

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

• IFNO — an input expression of type INTEGER, and it's the number of a unit that a single unformatted record gets written to. And listen: it is the user's responsibility to position this unit. AGSAVE does not rewind it — not before writing the record, not after. So don't come for me when your file pointer is somewhere weird, because that's on you, bestie. 😭

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🌈 C-BINDING DESCRIPTION 🌈

The C-binding argument description is literally the same as the FORTRAN argument description. Same energy, different syntax. periodt. ✨

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🎀 USAGE 🎀

This routine saves internal parameter values to a file. That's the whole vibe. 📁

For a complete list of parameters available in this utility, go read the autograph_params man page — it's giving full inventory, iykyk. 👑

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🔥 ACCESS 🔥

To use AGSAVE or c_agsave, you gotta load the NCAR Graphics libraries ncarg, ncarg_gks, and ncarg_c — preferably in that order, no cap, the order matters. 🫶

Want smoother curves, drawn using spline interpolation? Then also load libdashsmth.o. ✨

OR — plot twist — you can just use the ncargf77 command to compile your program and load all the libraries above. And then, for those smoother curves, hit it with the -dashsmth option. Two paths, same slay. 💅

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📬 MESSAGES 📬

See the autograph man page for a description of all Autograph error messages and/or informational messages. All the receipts live there. 🧾

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

Online: autograph, autograph_params, agback, agbnch, agchax, agchcu, agchil, agchnl, agcurv, agdshn, aggetc, aggetf, aggeti, aggetp, aggetr, agpwrt, agrstr, agsetc, agsetf, agseti, agsetp, agsetr, agstup, agutol, anotat, displa, ezmxy, ezmy, ezxy, ezy

Hardcopy: NCAR Graphics Fundamentals, UNIX Version

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👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

Copyright (C) 1987-2009 University Corporation for Atmospheric Research The use of this Software is governed by a License Agreement.

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💀 reminder bestie: AGSAVE does NOT rewind your unit. Position it yourself or perish (dramatically). This is not a drill.

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okay that's the whole page, and just so you know where it came from: this is from the UNIX flavor of the manual, dated March 1993, and it lives at AGSAVE(3NCARG) in the NCAR GRAPHICS set. bye bestie, go save your state 💖✨🎀🦋🌸