Hi Pasha,
I have removed the limitation that the file name must contain
the string ".root". ".root" remains necessary only in case one wants to specify
a Tree in a subdirectory of a Root file with eg, the format:
//machine/file_name.root/subdir/tree_name
I however strongly recommend to name the Root files with the suffix ".root".
This has many advantages when using the browser.
Rene Brun
Pasha Murat (630)840-8237@169G wrote:
>
> Dear ROOT'ers,
>
> I'd like to reiterate on an issue raised some time earlier:
> right now it is only possible to combine into TChain files which have
> extention ".root", otherwise one gets the following diagnostics:
>
> Error("AddFile","a chain element name must contain the string .root");
>
> We are thinking about storing the ROOT files with the trees in there in the
> data handling system and writing them to tape. An immediate consequence of this
> is that freedom of choosing the file names and extentions at random goes away
> and we no longer can have files with their extentions being ".root".
> At the same time we'd like to continue chaining the trees stored in the files.
> So let me ask the question about what is the limitation which requires chained
> files to have predefined extention (.root) once again,
>
> thanks a lot, Pasha
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