About changing from old GKS to NCAR-GKS

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Hello, I am Fuyuko Ohdan, posting from Japan.

My office has some programs which are written in UNIX / Motif / GKS (language: C and Fortran).
And now, we have to consider to change the machine from UNIX to Linux in the future, maybe in next 5 years.

The GKS which we are using is no longer supported, and will not work on a new Linux machine.
So I am looking for a new GKS package which works both UNIX and Linux.

Now I found your site.
I read $B!H(BUser's Guide for NCAR GKS-0A Graphics / Appendix B. NCAR GKS-0A Subroutine Subset$B!I(B roughly.
Almost subroutine names are the same as our GKS routines.
So I expect that we can change the GKS package without troublesome work.

Current our UNIX is Solaris 10.
The first GKS we had got was GK-2000 from USA (about 20 years ago). And later, we changed it to NOVA*GKS(Japan).
We could change from GK-2000 to NOVA*GKS easily because subroutine names were the same, we were required minimal customize at that time.

I have some questions.
1. Do you think it$B!G(Bs easy to change the old GKS package to NCAR GKS?
2. What is conceivable problems?

I expect it is easy to change from old GKS to NCAR-GKS.

Yours truly,

Fuyuko Ohdan
Toyo Tire & Rubber Co. Ltd.

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Received on Wed Oct 9 02:36:25 2013