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SubmitSim's example generator config filename is unhelpful #47

Closed nsjarvis closed 4 years ago

nsjarvis commented 4 years ago

It starts with /.../Generators and the text is too large to fit into the box so the entire thing is not readable. It is not obvious how to interpret /.../
I suggest that you remove the text or make it a lot shorter and more realistic, eg /home/username/gen_amp_2pi.cfg

T-Britton commented 4 years ago

when I did that I got a lot of submissions and emails because people put /home/ in and provided no read access. When I switched to this form the number of bad submits due to permissions issues went way down. I can't use two dots because that could be interpreted as a relative path. And if I use any more dots less useful information will be shown. The length of that bar is screen size/window size dependent (among other things) and will not be fixed

nsjarvis commented 4 years ago

If /home is by default private, then I agree, that is a terrible example.

How about /work/halld/username/gen.cfg instead ?

T-Britton commented 4 years ago

When I made it /work/ I got a lot of "does it have to be on work?". Maybe, no example, it does say full path. Replace with: "path must be accessible by tbritton on an ifarm machine"

T-Britton commented 4 years ago

updated placeholder