Newsgroups: comp.parallel.mpi
From: wmagro@msc.cornell.edu (William Magro)
Subject: Re: application in different directory from input decks
Organization: Cornell University
Date: 25 Mar 1996 18:27:42 GMT
Message-ID: <4j6oiu$9gb@newsstand.cit.cornell.edu>

Mike Applebaum (applebau@vt.edu) wrote:
:   I have a quick and probably very easy question.  I need to
:   run a program which expects the input decks to be in the 
:   current working directory, but the application resides in
:   a different directory.  When I run the application, it puts
:   me in the directory of the application, not the correct working
:   directory.  I can get around this by copying the application to
:   the working directory, but is there a more eligant method to
:   doing this.

Try a symbolic link:

ln -s ~/program_dir/program .

--Bill

