<p>What purpose does the info file have?</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On May 22, 2012 9:31 PM, "Shri" <<a href="mailto:abhyshr@mcs.anl.gov">abhyshr@mcs.anl.gov</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman">You can also use the option -viewer_binary_skip_info to have PETSc not create the .info file.<br><br><hr><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid rgb(16,16,255);margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px">
<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 8:45 PM, Andrew Spott <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andrew.spott@gmail.com" target="_blank">andrew.spott@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
When writing out a Mat in binary form, the .info file is created, but it usually empty, how do you read/write to it?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>They are written and read automatically by the PETSc binary viewers. You shouldn't need to look at them.</div>
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