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

[Patrick Sunter]

Thanks Matt :- the only other section I thought might be appropriate
would be the manual section "1.2 Running PETSc Programs" that mentions
a few options.

-- Pat.

On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 1:38 AM, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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)
>>
>> Room 301, Building 28
>> Monash University VIC 3800
>> Australia
>>
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>>
>> For VPAC/AuScope admin issues email: patrick at vpac.org
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>
>
>
> --
> What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments
> is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments
> lead.
> -- Norbert Wiener
>



-- 
Patrick Sunter

VPAC Senior Computational Software Developer - AuScope Monash SAM Project
Monash University Adjunct Research Associate (School of Mathematical Sciences)

Room 301, Building 28
Monash University VIC 3800
Australia

Ph: +61 (0)3 9905 4468

For VPAC/AuScope admin issues email: patrick at vpac.org
For AuScope software development email: patdevelop at gmail.com