[petsc-users] How do you write/read to the .info file

[Matthew Knepley]

On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 11:32 PM, Andrew Spott <andrew.spott at gmail.com>wrote:

> What purpose does the info file have?
>
Caching metadata that might optimize the load.

   Matt


> On May 22, 2012 9:31 PM, "Shri" <abhyshr at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
>
>> You can also use the option -viewer_binary_skip_info to have PETSc not
>> create the .info file.
>>
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>>
>> On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 8:45 PM, Andrew Spott <andrew.spott at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> When writing out a Mat in binary form, the .info file is created, but it
>>> usually empty, how do you read/write to it?
>>>
>>
>> They are written and read automatically by the PETSc binary viewers. You
>> shouldn't need to look at them.
>>
>>
>>


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