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- ppppmmmmrrrruuuunnnn - graphical utility for entering PCP command line arguments
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- ppppmmmmrrrruuuunnnn is a configurable utility for launching applications within the
- Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) framework. It is primarily a visual interface
- to the more frequently used command line arguments for each tool, and is
- intended as an aid in launching tools from the desktop.
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- ppppmmmmrrrruuuunnnn is based on the llllaaaauuuunnnncccchhhh(1) utility, and also understands a small set
- of the common PCP command line arguments, and contains knowledge of the
- semantics of these arguments. For example, the arguments for archives
- (-a) and hosts (-h) are common to many of the PCP monitor tools, and are
- also mutually exclusive arguments - this relationship is enforced by
- ppppmmmmrrrruuuunnnn, while still allowing either type of metric source to be specified.
- ppppmmmmrrrruuuunnnn must be run with a _c_o_m_m_a_n_d (must be an executable file) which is to
- be executed when either the ``OK'' or ``Apply'' button is pressed.
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- The optional _s_p_e_c_i_f_i_c_a_t_i_o_n_s allow additional launch arguments to be
- mapped to input fields for user completion. Again, this is intended to
- provide a more obvious, self-explanatory interface to the launched
- application than is provided by the command line.
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- The _o_p_t_i_o_n_s control the specific arguments which are presented to the
- launched tool when either the ``OK'' or ``Apply'' button is pressed.
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- ----aaaa Creates a finder widget which allows an archive filename to be
- entered and subsequently passed to the launched tool via its own -a
- argument. The default value presented in the finder will be
- _a_r_c_h_i_v_e, which can be the empty string (_a_r_c_h_i_v_e is required if ppppmmmmrrrruuuunnnn
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- is all that is used).
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- ----hhhh Creates a finder widget which allows a hostname to be entered and
- passed to the launched tool via its own -h argument. The default
- value in the finder will be _h_o_s_t.
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- ----SSSS Creates a text field which allows the _s_t_a_r_t time for metric fetches
- from an archive to be entered. This field will not be editable if
- both the -h and -a arguments have been presented to ppppmmmmrrrruuuunnnn and the
- ``Host'' toggle button is currently set. The times entered in this
- text field are validated according to the syntax rules described in
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- ----TTTT Similar to the -S argument, but allows the archive _f_i_n_i_s_h time to be
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- ----tttt Creates a text field and an associated time-units selection menu.
- This allows the sample interval at which performance metrics will be
- fetched from the metrics source to be specified. The interval
- argument follows the syntax described in PPPPCCCCPPPPIIIInnnnttttrrrroooo(1), and in the
- simplest form may be an unsigned integer (the implied units are
- seconds). The default is 2.0 seconds.
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- ----xxxx The _t_e_x_t following this argument will be prepended to the launched
- _c_o_m_m_a_n_d before it is executed.
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- ----yyyy The _t_e_x_t following this argument will be appended to the launched
- _c_o_m_m_a_n_d before it is executed.
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- The language used to recognize the _s_p_e_c_i_f_i_c_a_t_i_o_n arguments to ppppmmmmrrrruuuunnnn is
- designed to be simple and easily extended (programmatically) should the
- need for different argument input mechanisms arise.
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- The general format for these arguments is a ``|'' separated string, with
- the first argument distinguishing the user-interface element (type) which
- is to be created. Currently the only supported specification type is for
- text fields, and the remaining tokens are as follows:
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- _t_e_x_t|_f_l_a_g|_l_a_b_e_l|_d_e_f_a_u_l_t
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- The _t_e_x_t token identifies this as a text field. _f_l_a_g is the command line
- flag to pass to the launched application (a ``-'' will be prepended to
- this by ppppmmmmrrrruuuunnnn) when a value has been entered into this text field. _l_a_b_e_l
- is the label associated with this text field, and _d_e_f_a_u_l_t is the string
- displayed by default in the text field.
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- All error conditions encountered will be reported via an error dialog,
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