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GNS_TNG - Translate name to a GKS device specification

Description:
The workstation name is translated to a GKS workstation type and connection identifier and, if necessary, a logical name created to map the connection identifier onto the device implied by the workstation name.

This routine is the same as GNS_TNDG but without an explicit physical device name argument.


Invocation:
CALL GNS_TNG( NAME, IWKTYP, ICONID, STATUS )

Arguments:

NAME = CHARACTER*(*) (Given)
Workstation name
IWKTYP = INTEGER (Returned)
GKS workstation type
ICONID = INTEGER (Returned)
Connection identifier
STATUS = INTEGER (Given and Returned)
The global status



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GNS [2.5exrkstation
Starlink User Note 57
David Terrett & Nicholas Eaton
12 July 1995
E-mail:ussc@star.rl.ac.uk

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