elmersolver 7.0, requires ELMERSOLVER_STARTINFO again?

[NJank]

just updated from 6.2 to 7.0. noticed that everywhere I used to be able to issue a "elmersolver mymodel.sif" command I now get an ERROR:: ElmerSolver: Unable to find ELMERSOLVER_STARTINFO, can not execute.

since when running a single file, the only point of that startinfo file is to list the name of the sif file, is there a reason the command line parameter isn't valid?

[santhosh]

Hi

I get the same error.

Error::ElmerSolver: Unable to find ELMERSOLVER_STARTINFO, can not execute.

Can anyone help me out with this.

Thanks in advance

Santhosh

[raback]

Hi

I think that this is a system/compiler issue. The feature has always worked in Unix (not in parallel) and never in Windows - or I haven't known it to work. To my knowledge nothing has been done to the code to remove this functionality.

-Peter

[NJank]

Been a while, but I recall trying the command line thing some years ago (windows) and discovering it didn't work, needed the STARTINFO file. Then, with one of the 6.x versions, it worked, and thinking it was an intentional and welcome change I made all of my scripts (often calling parametrically from within Octave) just use the sif file in the command line. Then with the 7.0 upgrade it stopped working again, and had to revert to the STARTINFO file. so, something changed (seems unintentionally), but it is apparently possible to work that way on Windows.

nickj

[raback]

Hi

Perhaps one could make a simple wrapper. For example the following works in Unix

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echo 'case.sif' >! ELMERSOLVER_STARTINFO ; ElmerSolver

and in Windows

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echo case.sif > ELMERSOLVER_STARTINFO & ElmerSolver

Maybe somebody could come up with something prettier...

-Peter

[NJank]

Hi

Perhaps one could make a simple wrapper. For example the following works in Unix

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echo 'case.sif' >! ELMERSOLVER_STARTINFO ; ElmerSolver

and in Windows

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echo case.sif > ELMERSOLVER_STARTINFO & ElmerSolver

Maybe somebody could come up with something prettier...

-Peter

I think that's about as simple as you could get in windows. no overwrite prompt or warning. prettier would be removing the need for the file
executable <datafile> is a fairly standard CLI convention. Unless STARTINFO provides some other functionality I'm not award of.

[santhosh]

hi

thanks for the help.

i tried to rerun my simulation from scratch and it worked this time.

santhosh