GFLAS4(3NCARG)

πŸ“¦ version 6.6.2, in epel 9, fedora 43, fedora 44

✨ GFLAS4 ✨ (a.k.a. the NCAR Graphics girlie who fetches your old plot instructions off disk) πŸ’ΎπŸ«Ά

okay bestie, so GFLAS4 is that one function that lets you reach into a disk file of plotting instructions β€” the kind that got made by a GFLAS1 + GFLAS2 sequence in some previous job β€” and pull it out for use in a GFLAS3 call. like it's giving time capsule energy fr fr. πŸ“Όβœ¨


🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

CALL GFLAS4 (IB, FNAME)

πŸ’… C-BINDING SYNOPSIS πŸ’…

#include <ncarg/ncargC.h>

void c_gflas4 (int ib, char *fname)

πŸ¦‹ DESCRIPTION πŸ¦‹

  • IB β€” (INTEGER, input) this is the identifier you're gonna use for all your later GFLAS3 calls, so pick wisely bestie. it has to be between 0 and 99 inclusive β€” no cap, that's the range β€” exactly like the IB argument you'd hand to GFLAS1. πŸŽ€
  • FNAME β€” (CHARACTER, input) the name of the file where the plotting instructions are actually stored. it's a FORTRAN character variable, and it holds the file name of the disk file. literally just the name, that's it, that's the whole job. πŸ“

🌈 C-BINDING DESCRIPTION 🌈

the C-binding argument descriptions are the same as the FORTRAN argument descriptions. same vibes, different language. πŸ’œ


πŸ‘‘ ACCESS πŸ‘‘

to use GFLAS4 or c_gflas4, you gotta load the NCAR Graphics libraries ncarg, ncarg_gks, and ncarg_c β€” and preferably in that exact order, okay? don't be chaotic about it. ⭐


πŸ”₯ SEE ALSO πŸ”₯

Online, go peek at: gflash, gflas1, gflas2, gflas3, ncarg_cbind. iykyk πŸ’…

Hardcopy, the real ones: NCAR Graphics Contouring and Mapping Tutorial; NCAR Graphics Fundamentals, UNIX Version. actual printed lore, obsessed. πŸ“š


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


⚠️ heads up bestie: the license agreement governs the use of this software, so read it, don't just scroll past it. πŸ™ˆ

and that's the whole page!! this was the UNIX manual page from March 1993, straight outta the NCAR Graphics collection β€” iconic behavior honestly. slay, go plot something. πŸ’–βœ¨πŸ¦‹

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