Dear Nick,
I have now used version 4.5.0 and the -randomness flag no longer gives errors, however, after 10 parallel runs of a subject with the -randomness flag set, I observe that the stats are completely identical. In the logs I can see that the line "setting seed for random number generator to 1234" is no longer there. In the earlier versions where the random initialisation was default I observed differences in the stats when I made the 10 parallel runs on the same subject as I have used this time - so it would seem that the random initialisation is not turned on  when I use the flag. Can you please comment on this :)

Thanks,
Pernille

On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 12:03 AM, Nick Schmansky <nicks@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> wrote:
Pernille,

My mistake, v4.4.0 still makes use of randomness.  The next version, to
be released in a couple weeks, with have -norandomness by default.  The
ReleaseNotes page has been updated.

Nick



On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 09:52 +0200, Pernille Iversen wrote:
> Hi,
> In the release notes for version 4.4.0 it says that "The -randomness
> flag can be used to allow usage of a random seed", however, running
> the following command:
>
> recon-all -all -nowmsa -randomness -subjid f4168_1r
>
> gives the following error:
>
> ERROR: Flag -randomness unrecognized.
>
> Is there another way to reintroduce the randomness?
>
> I am using the following version:
> v 1.133.2.51 2009/06/11
>
> Thanks,
> Pernille
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