Rcfiles

A resource or rcfile is a text file with settings and actions to be performed. To run a job, fill the correct values in the rcfile and provide the name of the file as an argument to pprun.

The rcfiles should be self explained; if not, become angry with the author. See the examples in directory RCFILES

A resourcefile contains comment and key-data pairs to inititialize a script. The format of the rcfile is chosen close to the standard X resources:

• Comment lines start with '!'
• A key/data pair has the format:

  <key> : <data>

  where the white space (space or tabs) is optional. The <key> may consist of letters, numbers, '_', and '.' .
• The data value might contain environment variables such as ${HOME} or ${SCRATCH}, which are expanded in a preprocessing stage.

Example of a valid rcfile:

! start date:
pp.start : 20010312

! Specify an output directory:
output.path : ${SCRATCH}/TMPP

Tools are available to read settings from a rcfile from a script or a Fortran program. For more information, see:

SCRIPTS/go_readrc
SCRIPTS/go_pprc
SOURCE/go_rc.f90