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Arrangements

Thorns are grouped into arrangements. This is a logical grouping of thorns which is purely for organisational purposes. For example, you might wish to keep all your initial data thorns in one arrangement, and all your evolution thorns in another arrangement, or you may want to have separate arrangements for your developments, private and shared thorns.

The arrangements live in the arrangements directory of the main Cactus directory. Arrangement names must be (case independently) unique, must start with a letter, and can only contain letters, numbers or underscores. Arrangement names which start with a `#', or finish with `~' or `.bak' will be ignored.

Inside an arrangement directory there are directories for each thorn belonging to the arrangement.