[molpro-user] does this MRCC interface stub still have a purpose?

[Peter Knowles]

Dear Jan,

This filter is to prevent MRCC handing over elements of output that would cause the overall Molpro output file not to be well-formed xml.  Whilst MRCC continues to produce repeated minus signs, which are not allowed in xml comments, it is needed.

sed -u is not supported on all systems - most notably BSD/OSX.

Best regards,
Peter 

> On 20 Jan 2015, at 09:45, Gershom (Jan) Martin <gershom at weizmann.ac.il> wrote:
> 
> Greetings:
> 
> In the MRCC interface of molpro2012.1, 
> 
> Molpro/src/util/mrcc_intface.F  around line  326 is the code that writes out the shell command that invokes MRCC
> 
>         test=mrccexec(1:ll)
>      $       //' | sed -e "s/--/- /g" | tr -d "\000" >> '
>      $       //trim(output)
> 
> I wonder if this feeding through sed and tr filters still has any purpose with recent versions of MRCC? Its main actual effect, at this point, seems to be to introduce a level of output buffering that makes it impossible to monitor a heavy MRCC job. If I replace the two pipe segments by  a single one "' | sed -e "s/--/- /g” -u  >> ‘ (the -u switch minimizes buffering in sed) then at least the .xml output file can be used for real-time MRCC job monitoring.
> 
> In fact, if I just replace both pipes by spaces, nothing bad seems to happen either.
> 
> Does this MRCC output “pipelining” still have any purpose?
> 
> Best regards
> Jan Martin
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