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[Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 06:01:57PM +0000, Garth N. Wells wrote:
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>
> On 17/01/11 18:00, Anders Logg wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 04:39:07PM +0000, Garth N. Wells wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> On 17/01/11 16:14, Anders Logg wrote:
> >>> Why is the PVD format implementation named VTKFile?
> >>>
> >>> As far as I understand, PVD = ParaView Data format so a better name
> >>> would be ParaViewFile.
> >>>
> >>
> >> The bulk of what is written to file is in a VTK format.
> >>
> >> It could be split into 'ParaViewFile' and 'VTKFile'.
> >>
> >> Garth
> >
> > Is it the .vtu part which is VTK and the index file (.pvd) which is a
> > ParaView format?
>
> Yes. There are a few more VTK files that are written when running in
> parallel.

ok, it's not very important since it's not visibly to users. We can
split it next time we rework I/O.

--
Anders