Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: James Arthur Kohl <kohl@msr.epm.ornl.gov>
Subject: Re: xpvm
Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN
Date: 27 Jul 1995 15:36:09 GMT
Message-ID: <3v8bp9$ker@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov>

Stefan Hinker <hinker> wrote:
>
> patton@dirac (David Clay Patton) wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >Has anyone been able to spawn a master from xpvm such that it will
> >run in an alternate directory than $HOME ?
> 
> As far as I know, this is the same with plain pvm.  The program has to have
> some working directory anyway.  If you don't want the files in $HOME,
> you probably have a clear idea of where you want them.  One way is to define
> a filename prefix in your Makefile and use is whenever creating your files.
> This is ONE way, probably not the best one!

Hey Dudes,

You can set the default working directory using the "wd=" option
in a hostfile.  The system default is $HOME, but you can make it
anything you want in the hostfile.  (Make sure you start a fresh
virtual machine when you change the hostfile, either for XPVM or
PVM - the PVMDs don't look at the hostfile if PVM is already
running... :-).

	Jimbo

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