[26750] in Athena Bugs
Re: linux 9.4.22: chemkin_v3.7
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (chris avrich)
Wed Feb 22 17:53:51 2006
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 17:53:15 -0500
From: chris avrich <cda@mit.edu>
To: Alex T Prengel <alexp@mit.edu>
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On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 05:42:15PM -0500, Alex T Prengel wrote:
> This wouldn't be sdbrad by any chance- would it? I went through several
> iterations of trying to explain that CHEMKIN isn't intended to be run from
> within Matlab, nor is it supported in that mode. Users really should be
> using CHEMKIN 4 anyway, as you allude to. 3.7 is very old and won't stay
> around forever...
No, it's a different user. I'll remind him that it's unsupported.
For the record, I don't know what chemkin is for, but if multiple users
seem to need/want to be able to plug it into matlab, then might it be a
task worth consideration of possible support?
> It gets deleted and recreated on each launch to make sure it points to the
> correct platform-specific real directory each time (in case the user has
> switched platforms)- on Linux, the real directory is .chemkin37.linux.
> If the user stays on one platform (Sun or Linux), it should be fine to
> delete that line, as long as the user makes the symlink by hand and has it
> pointing to the right place. I don't see why this caused a problem anyway
> because the link is recreated in the next line after the rm.
Thanks for the info! I knew it sounded a bit odd that he had to save his
work files in that directory. I'll tell him he can probably get around it
by just saving them elsewhere.
-chris
