@Joshua Smith if Xyce is started on netlist circuit.spice with a raw filename using

-r circuit.raw

(

Xyce circuit.spice -r circuit.raw

) , simulation data goes there and this is fine. However a .PRINT line in the netlist with format=RAW and no FILE specification will use

circuit.spice.raw

, creating another raw file. Is this intended? a -r command line should reset the default output filename in my humble opinion. Of course this is not a severe issue as i can work around this by setting FILE=circuit.raw explicitly.

For all the formats that can be specified on the

.PRINT

line, the convention in Xyce has always been to append a suffix to the full netlist name, including the original suffix. So, if the original file is netlist.cir, and STD format is specified, the resulting file is is netlist.cir.prn. Same with (for example) format=probe, or format=csw. They will produce netlist.cir.csd and netlist.cir.csv, respectively. So, when we added support for rawfiles, we continued with this pattern.

I will do some checks, whatever the behavior i can specify the file location when needed so no problem. Thanks

Anyway, it has been a very long time since we adopted the

full.name + suffix

approach that I don’t recall who came up with the idea (it could have been me, or possibly not), or if it was decision we put much thought into at the time. In the early days (20+ years ago) we weren’t as concerned with compatibility.

No, don't do that, the best is to have the possibility to specify output file names. Different tools have different conventions so there is no one-fits-all anyway.