[petsc-users] Small suggestion - update docs to include "-options_file"

Matthew Knepley knepley at gmail.com
Mon Jul 12 10:38:06 CDT 2010


I have added this to the PetscOptionsInsert() manpage.

   Matt

On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 8:49 AM, Patrick Sunter <patdevelop at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> just would like to make a suggestion to update the PETSc documentation
> to specify how the "-options_file" command line argument works.
>
> The only reference to it I could find in the PETSc docs was on the
> 2.0.16 changes list page.
>
> Since this feature is used pretty heavily by our group when
> customising e.g. multigrid solvers, it would be nice in the docs of
> our code to be able to link to a PETSc document about this as a
> definitive source.
>
> thanks, Patrick.
> --
> Patrick Sunter
>
> VPAC Senior Computational Software Developer - AuScope Monash SAM Project
> Monash University Adjunct Research Associate (School of Mathematical
> Sciences)
>
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>
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>



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