p" align="left"><tt>status&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</tt></td><td>   action to be performed: can be 'delete' <br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="type">[character, optional]</span></td>
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</dd>
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<h4>set_domain</h4>
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<b>DESCRIPTION</b>
</dt>
<dd>   set_domain is called to save the domain2d data type prior to
   calling the distributed data I/O routines, read_data and write_data. </dd>
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<dt>
<b>INPUT</b>
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<dd>
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