On Wed, 4 Jul 2007, John R Pierce wrote:

> George Woltman wrote:
>> At 02:31 PM 7/4/2007, you wrote:
>>
>>>> Remember that mprime and prime95 looks for all the ini files and save files
>>>> in the same directory as the executable.  You can change that behavior
>>>> with the -W command line argument.
>>>>
>>> Hmmm. My impression is that mprime looks for its files in the current 
>>> working
>>> directory.
>>>
>>
>> Then there is a bug in the Linux version.  Hmmm, should I go fix it?
>>
>
> I prefer it the way it is.   makes it easier to run multiple instances
> without having to copy the binaries.
>
>
>    for i in ~/mersenne/?; do (cd $i; ../bin/mprime -args >log & ); done
>

Moreover, it is a standard behavior in Linux and any other (I think) 
not only multi-task but also "multi-login" systems. Your files are always 
(as default) in YOUR working (current) directory with binaries somewhere 
in the file-system (accesible by PATH variable).

Wojtek Florek

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