GCLKS(3NCARG)

💖 GCLKS 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the NCAR GRAPHICS manual page for GCLKS — it lives in section 3NCARG and it's literally the bye-bye button for the whole GKS package. ✨

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✨ NAME ✨

GCLKS (aka Close GSK) — closes the GKS package. that's it, that's the whole job, and she does it flawlessly 💅

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

CALL GCLKS

that's the whole call. no arguments, no drama, no notes. 🫶

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🌈 C-BINDING SYNOPSIS 🌈

for my C girlies, you get the same energy through a header and a function:

#include <ncarg/gks.h>

void gclose_gks( void );

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🦋 USAGE 🦋

so here's the tea: a call to GCLKS insures that the graphics package is properly terminated. clean exit, no loose ends, main character energy. 👑

but bestie listen — no graphics calls depending on GKS should be made during the time that GKS is closed. like, don't text your ex, don't call GKS after you closed it. just don't. 💀

now here's the shortcut that makes some of y'all not even need this function: if output to a CGM has been the exclusive requirement of the graphics job, and the SPPS entry OPNGKS has been used to open GKS and to open and activate a CGM workstation, then CLSGKS can be used to deactivate and close the CGM workstation, and to close GKS — which makes a direct call to GCLKS unnecessary in that case. so if that's your situation, CLSGKS already ate and GCLKS is lowkey just sitting there. 🍓

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💜 ACCESS 💜

to use GKS routines, load the NCAR GKS-0A library ncarg_gks. yes, that's the one. go get her. 🧚

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

Online: gopks, gopwk, gacwk, gdawk, gclwk, gupwk, opngks, clsgks, gclose_gks

Hardcopy: User's Guide for NCAR GKS-0A Graphics; 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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okay that's the whole page, you're officially GCLKS-pilled, no cap 🌸 this was the UNIX flavor, dated March 1993, filed under GCLKS(3NCARG) — mwah, go close that package, you've got this 💖✨🎀