Saving the setup information



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Saving the setup information

 

Once all of the hosts, host commands, and files have been entered to the user's satisfaction, the information can be saved to a file. To do this, the user chooses the Save File button at the bottom of the PADE Setup window. This causes the file browser window to appear. The user then either chooses a file that is already present on the disk or types the name of a new file in the File name box near the bottom of the file browser window. The user can also change to a different directory if necessary. It is recommended that all files be saved in the same directory as the source files, however. If the user chooses an already existing file, a PADE Question dialog box will open asking for confirmation to overwrite the file.

Note that, at this point, PADE will create two files. The first file saves the setup information under the name specified by the user. The second file is a pvmmake config file that contains commands telling pvmmake to transfer the files and issue the host commands as specified in the setup information just entered by the user. The name of this file is the same as that specified by the user to save the setup information with an added pvmmake extension. Thus, if the user saves the setup info to the file setup_info, PADE will create (or overwrite) this file and will also create a file named setup_info.pvmmake.

Once users have saved the setup information to a file, they can either modify the information or choose to exit the Setup window. The Setup window is exited by choosing the Done button at the bottom of the window. When the user is satisfied with the setup info as entered, the next step is to build the application.



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Fri Mar 31 20:30:34 EST 1995