Re: swarm-1.2 and Drone

[Rick Riolo]

Not having installed swarm-1.2 (and now that 1.3 is here,
I never will!), I don't know what the problem is.
However, I thought I'd remind you that amoung drone's many
control switches are ones to change how parameters are specified.
For example, you app can choose to use -D (or -D: or D= or X= or P: 
or ... ) or any other prefix to denote parameters.
And if need be, you can write a little "wrapper" script
and have that act as an interface between drone and your app.
For details, see the section:
  
http://www.pscs.umich.edu//Software/Drone/doc/node23.html#SECTION00043000000000000000

in the online doc at UM.

  - r

Rick Riolo                           address@hidden
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On Wed, 26 Aug 1998, Sven N. Thommesen wrote:

> Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 00:36:42 -0500
> From: Sven N. Thommesen <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: swarm-1.2 and Drone
> 
> 
> I just tried to run a set of experiments with an app (recently ported to
> 1.2) with the aid of Ted Belding's Drone. 
> 
> Drone passes runtime arguments to the app in this form:
> 
> -D:<argument-name>=<value>
> 
> This no longer seems to work, in that the app terminates with the error
> message "Invalid option -- D". Possibly related to the new Argument object
> that parses the command line.
> 
> Where do I go from here? My app has its own parser, so in principle I just
> need for Argument to pass these strings through untouched. 
> 
> (If Swarm must be changed, I was going to beg for its inclusion in 1.3 --
> but I see you beat me to it! :-)
> 
> Sven
> 
> 
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