PLGFAM(3plplot)

💖 PLGFAM — get family file parameters 💖

okay bestie, real talk: this is a PLplot API page, and I'm about to make it make sense for you. no cap. ✨

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✨ NAME ✨

plgfam — literally just "get family file parameters". that's the whole vibe. 🎀

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

plgfam(p_fam, p_num, p_bmax)

that's it. three arguments, all of them are outputs, so like... she's giving "I only talk, I don't listen" energy and honestly? iconic. 💅

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so plgfam goes and fetches the info about the current family file — but heads up, this only works if familying is enabled. if it's not, well, there's nothing to get, yk? 🙈

for the whole deep lore on family files, go read the PLplot documentation. it's all in there. ✨

Redacted form: plgfam(p_fam, p_num, p_bmax)

and for the completionists in the chat: this function shows up in examples 14 and 31. go look, i'll wait. 🫶 🔥

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🌈 ARGUMENTS 🌈

• p_fam (PLINT_NC_SCALAR(3plplot), output) — the returned value of the current family flag. if it's nonzero, familying is enabled for the current device. so like, truthy = we're familying. periodt. 👑
• p_num (PLINT_NC_SCALAR(3plplot), output) — the returned value of the current family file number. 🔢
• p_bmax (PLINT_NC_SCALAR(3plplot), output) — the returned value of the maximum file size, in bytes, for a family file. 📏

ngl bestie, all three of these are outputs — you're not passing values in, you're catching values on the way out. don't go trying to feed her inputs, she won't take them. 💀

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🧚 AUTHORS 🧚

Many developers (who are credited at http://plplot.sourceforge.net/credits.php) have contributed to PLplot over its long history. like, an actual village raised this library and we love that for them. 🫶💖

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

• PLplot documentation at http://plplot.sourceforge.net/documentation.php. go read it, i believe in you. 📚✨

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and that's the page!! 🎉 this absolute cutie comes to you courtesy of the PLplot API, dated August, 2026 — PLGFAM(3plplot), signing off. mwah. 💋🦋🌸