The Log File

If the log feature is enables any output of genesis to the screen is redirect into a log-file. The purpose of the log-file is to support background calculation of GENESIS 1.3. Thus the execution will be terminated if GENESIS 1.3 needs further information (e.g. file names for additional input files). The log feature is more reasonable for the C++-version of GENESIS 1.3 because the input file name can by supplied as a command line argument while starting GENESIS 1.3. The FORTRAN version still needs to request the input file name thus defying the purpose of a background job. Anyhow to start it as a background job type the command: 'genesis < geninput > genoutput 2>&1 &' where geninput is a simple ASCII file containing the file name of the input file. The file genoutput will catch any output, which cannot be handled by the log file (e.g. error messages). In the ideal case genoutput contains only the initial text lines for requesting the input file name.

• Input and Output Files
• The Main Input File
• The Main Output File
• The Radiation and Particle Output File
• The Log File
• Reading-in and Dumping the Particle and Radiation Distribution
• The Magnet Description Input and Output File
• The Beam Description File
• The Radiation Description File
• The External Distribution File
• The Time-Record File
• The SDDS File Format
• The XML File Format
• The HDF5 File Format