Another, possibly related, problem:
The following program crashes with the following msgs:
(as you can see, this is using ncarg3.1.3) 

41 shavano> !cf
cf77 -Wl"-L /lib,/usr/lib,/usr/local/ncarg3.1.3/lib,/usr/local/lib -l ncarg,ncarg_loc,ncarg_gks -i /u0/foster/segdir" opwk.f
42 shavano> a.out < opwk.inp
lutitle=  4
 GKS ERROR NUMBER  26 ISSUED FROM SUBROUTINE GOPWK :
 --SPECIFIED WORKSTATION CANNOT BE OPENED
 GKS ERROR NUMBER  25 ISSUED FROM SUBROUTINE GCLWK :
 --SPECIFIED WORKSTATION IS NOT OPEN
 STOP  (called by OPWK )
 CP: 0.119s,  Wallclock: 0.379s,  3.9% of 8-CPU Machine
 HWM mem: 457367, HWM stack: 7302, Stack overflows: 0

      program opwk
      data idflash/90/, luflash/20/
c
      call opngks
      call gopwk(idflash,luflash,3)
c
      call slgeti('LOG',lutitle)
      write(6,"('lutitle=',i3)") lutitle
      call ftitle(1)
c
      call gclwk(idflash)
      call clsgks
      stop
      end
c

It does not crash if I comment out the ftitle call.
If I comment out the gopwk and gclwk calls and leave
ftitle, then ftitle produces frames as expected.
I have tried changing the 'LOG' parameter for ftitle,
with same results. I guess the msgs are coming from
ftitle attempts to gopwk and gclwk. BTW, the New Utilities
guide says default value for 'LOG' is 9 (bottom pg. 6-34),
but in this program it appears to be 4.

--Ben