In this link https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/wiki/JobTemplates about templates, it states about <name><OUTFILE_0/></name> that:

<name> the physical file name. Typically use <OUTFILE_0>, <OUTFILE_1> etc.; BOINC will replace this with a generated name based on the job name.

I don’t understand what this means. Isn’t the app itself that is supposed to generate the output file? Let say that I’ve got an app that generates some result and saves it in a file named “my_results.txt”. Shouldn’t I use this name in the appname_out template?

I don’t understand what BOINC is doing here. My understanding is that in the “out” template I should state the name of the file generated by my app so that the wrapper knows when the app is finished running.

Thanks!