question about using same unit number to open different files on a dual processor computer.

[Martin Siegert]

Hi,

On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 04:34:14PM -0500, gli at chem.wisc.edu wrote:
> Hi, everybody,
> i use MPICH to make a parallel program on one dual-processor computer.
> so there should be two processes on this computer i can use. id=0,1
> i want to open different files for different id processes but using the 
> same unit number, is it possible?
> if yes, how i can do it?
> 
> thanks very much!!

Since you are refering to "unit numbers" I am guessing that your program
is written in Fortran. In that case something like

if (id == 0) then
   open(8,file='file0')
else
   open(8,file='file1')
endif

should do the trick.
I hope this helps.

Cheers,
Martin

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