Problem with mprime (Fixed with mprime -d)

antiroach · 2004-07-18, 21:15

Hey, i have trouble getting mprime to do work for LMH. FIrst off im a linux newbie. I'm running mandrake 10. I got mprime to execute just fine. I was able to input some user info and preferences and the like. I have a worktodo.ini file that i copied over from my windows installation. But whenever I copy that file into the mprime directory and run mprime, it just hangs. CPU usage is negligible, and no output is produced. Am I doing something wrong? My goal is to let mprime continue factoring the exponents in my worktodo.ini file and write the results out to file. Any help would be appreciated.

roy1942 · 2004-07-18, 23:13

Maybe the problem is in the format of your worktodo.ini file. Remember that in Windows, a text line ends with a carriage-return + line-feed pair, while in linux/unix, it just ends with a line-feed. Some programs to transfer files between computers - like ftp in ascii mode - will take care of the conversion, but others may not. I don't know how prime95 or mprime behave if they read the wrong type of file, but perhaps that could be your problem.

antiroach · 2004-07-19, 04:07

wow i really should learn to read the documentation. ./mprime -d does wonders :)
Everything seems to be working now.

2004-07-18, 21:15	#1
antiroach Jun 2003 2²·61 Posts	Problem with mprime (Fixed with mprime -d) Hey, i have trouble getting mprime to do work for LMH. FIrst off im a linux newbie. I'm running mandrake 10. I got mprime to execute just fine. I was able to input some user info and preferences and the like. I have a worktodo.ini file that i copied over from my windows installation. But whenever I copy that file into the mprime directory and run mprime, it just hangs. CPU usage is negligible, and no output is produced. Am I doing something wrong? My goal is to let mprime continue factoring the exponents in my worktodo.ini file and write the results out to file. Any help would be appreciated.

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2004-07-18, 23:13	#2
roy1942 Aug 2002 2F₁₆ Posts	Maybe the problem is in the format of your worktodo.ini file. Remember that in Windows, a text line ends with a carriage-return + line-feed pair, while in linux/unix, it just ends with a line-feed. Some programs to transfer files between computers - like ftp in ascii mode - will take care of the conversion, but others may not. I don't know how prime95 or mprime behave if they read the wrong type of file, but perhaps that could be your problem.

2004-07-19, 04:07	#3
antiroach Jun 2003 2²·61 Posts	wow i really should learn to read the documentation. ./mprime -d does wonders :) Everything seems to be working now.