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 The application 'convert' is used to convert an old format tracefile into a new 
 The application 'convert' is used to convert an old format tracefile into a new 

-format tracefile. It has three commandline parameters, the first is tracefile 
-name, the second is a number (number of cpu), the last one is root directory
-for the new trace (this can be omitted, by default it is 'foo')
+format tracefile. It has several commandline parameters, the first is process file 
+name, the second is a number (the number of cpu in the machine), the third is
+the first tracefile name(corresponding to the first cpu), the fourth is the 
+second tracefile name(corresponding to the second cpu), the fifth is ...,   
+the last one is root directory for the new trace (this can be omitted, 
+by default it is 'foo')

 
 The command line looks like this:      
 
 The command line looks like this:      

-        convert tracefile_name number_cpu foo_dir
+ ./convert processfile_name the_number_of_cpu first_tracefile_name, ..., foo_dir

 
 

-There is also an script file 'sysInfo' which is used to get system information
+There is also a script file 'sysInfo' which is used to get system information

 from your local machine, the information is saved in 'sysInfo.out' which will 
 from your local machine, the information is saved in 'sysInfo.out' which will 

-be read by 'convert' later. If the old tracefile is generated in other machine,
+be read by 'convert' later. If the old tracefile is generated by other machine,

 then the 'sysInfo.out' should be gotten from that machine.
 
 then the 'sysInfo.out' should be gotten from that machine.
 

+'core.xml' is a facility file, after run 'convert', it needs to be copied to
+'foo_dir/eventdefs' directory