[Users] extension name of ioascii output files
Thomas Radke
tradke at aei.mpg.de
Wed Feb 14 10:27:09 CST 2007
Hee Il Kim wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In some cases, the extension names, tl, xl, yl, zl are used for output file
> names. What's the reason "asc" or "xg" are not used for the extension names
> as described in the thorn guide? Is there anyway to control the extension
> names? I couldn't find any crucial difference between the two cases in the
> parameter files.
The reason for the "[txyzl]l" output file extensions is purely
historical: they were used in Cactus 3. For backwards compatibility we
kept them in Cactus 4, however you can switch to using the new filename
extensions by setting
IO::new_filename_scheme = "yes"
in your parameter files.
--
Cheers, Thomas.
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