DSGETC(3NCARG)

✨ DSGETC 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the NCARG corner of the manual — this one lives in the UNIX manual set, and it's genuinely so simple it's kind of iconic. 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

DSGETC — it retrieves the value of an internal parameter of type CHARACTER. That's it, that's the whole job. no cap. 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

CALL DSGETC (PNAM,CVAL)

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

• PNAM — a character string holding the name of the parameter you wanna retrieve. Heads up though: only the first three characters of the string are actually looked at, so the name has to live right there at the front. 👑
• CVAL — a character string that is the name of the variable where the value of the internal parameter named by PNAM is gonna land. so like, this is the lil container you're handing over, not the value itself. 🫶

💜 USAGE 💜

This routine is your girl for grabbing the current value of Dsgrid parameters. lowkey essential if you're poking around in there.

And if you want the complete list of parameters this utility has to offer? go read the dsgrid_params man page. it's giving encyclopedia but make it worth it. 📚✨

🌈 ACCESS 🌈

To use DSGETC, you load the NCAR Graphics library ngmath. that's the vibe check you gotta pass first. 🧚

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

• dsgrid
• dsgrid_params
• dsgrid2s
• dsgrid3s
• dsgrid2d
• dsgrid3d
• dspnt2s
• dspnt2d
• dspnt3s
• dspnt3d dssetc.

fr fr, that last one is written exactly like that in the original — dspnt3d dssetc. — so I'm not gonna be the one to "fix" it. it's iconic, it stays. 💀

Also! Complete documentation for Dsgrid is available at this URL, copy it exactly bestie:

http://ngwww.ucar.edu/ngdoc/ng/ngmath/dsgrid/dshome.html

👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

Copyright (C) 2000
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

The use of this Software is governed by a License Agreement. so like, respect it, okay? 🙈

UNIX · September 1997-1998 · DSGETC(3NCARG) — and that's the whole page, bestie. mwah, go retrieve those parameters, you main character. 💖✨🎀