Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: wjiang@thud.cs.utk.edu (weicheng jiang   )
Subject: Re: PVM_STR?
Organization: Computer Science Dept, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Date: 8 Mar 1995 17:14:53 GMT
Message-ID: <3jkomdINN6fp@CS.UTK.EDU>

In article <Pine.A32.3.91.950308152150.18834A-100000@frodo.cra.enel.it>, Andrea OMODEO <andrea@frodo.cra.enel.it> writes:
|> The book "PVM: parallel virtual machine" says (page 235) that I can use 
|> PVM_STR as an argument to pvm_psend(), indicating that I can transmit a 
|> string with this call.
|> 
|> However, in my copy of lpvm.c (which I tink is upgarded to v3.3.7) the 
|> switch inside pvm_psend don't accepts the PVM_STR case, resulting in the 
|> function call to fail. The same applies to pvm_precv().
|> 
|> Where am I wrong?
|> Thank you,
|> 	Andrew.
|> 

We found a bug there and disabled that feature. So for now at least, you
cannot send a string with the InPlace encoding or pvm_psend (which uses
InPlace encoding).

-Weicheng Jiang
University of Tennessee

