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When learning how to use ECF, you may open a window and run ecFlow in that window interactively. Notice that server still writes the log file (into ECF_LOG.)
ECFLOW log server
The default behaviour of the ecflowview client is to access the output file directly (case 1 in Figure 7 2).
When this is not possible, e.g. when the ecflowview host cannot see the relevant file system, the ecFlow server is asked to request the output (case 2 in Figure 7 2). If the output file is large the ecFlow server will supply the last 10000 lines of the output. You can use the following command to get the relevant file associated with a given node:
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