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From: Bryan Putnam <bfp@purdue.edu>
Subject: Re: Changing location of scratch directory?
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Edwin, yes, that's what I mean and thanks for the pointers.

Bryan

On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Charles Edwin Webster wrote:

> bryan,
>
> do you mean the scratch directory for running calculations?
>
> if so, it is a top-level directive...
> http://www.emsl.pnl.gov:2080/docs/nwchem/doc/user/node7.html
>
>
> edwin
>
>
> Bryan Putnam wrote:
>
> > Hi, is it possible for the user to change the location of the scratch
> > directory without rebuilding NWChem? It seems that the environment
> > variable
> >
> > SCRATCH_DEF_DIR
> >
> > is only used during the build, and not used when the program is running.
> >
> > I suppose one alternative might be to specify, for example,
> >
> > SCRATCH_DEF_DIR=dummy
> >
> > during the build, and then the user running the program can make "dummy" a
> > symlink pointing to an appropriate location.
> >
> > This is the IBM SP version of NWChem 4.0.1.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Bryan
>
>