-prefix flag cause beast to crash

[carlopacioni]

Hi Remco, I have a script to run multiple instances of BEAST from the same xml file to test the speed at different settings. To avoid conflicts to access the same files, I’m using the flag -prefix (e.g. T1). While this works fine for the log and tree files, beast interprets the prefix as a path for the statefile and crashes with the message: java.io.FileNotFoundException: T1\EBSP_default.xml.state.new (The system cannot find the path specified)

I worked around the problem by also setting -statefile, which seems to override -prefix for the statefile, but I’ not sure whether this is the intended behaviour and thought to drop a line to let you know.

cheers, carlo