From: Anders Jorgensen <ajorg@lanl.gov>
Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
Subject: Re: howto pack logicals in pvmfpack ?
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 09:26:08 -0600
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Arnaud ABRASSART wrote:
> 
> ... or with pvmfpsend
> It doesn t seem to be a "what" option ...
> would BYTE1 do the job ?
> also, I  m not sure about the meaning of stride , the doc is quite
> elusive about that.
> 
> any help would be really appreciated ...

About stride:
  If stride is 2, you pack every 2nd element of your input array into
the buffer.
If it is 3, then you pack every 3rd element. I.e. you walk (or stride) 2
or 3 elements forward in the array to the next one to pack.
                             ---anders