Megatest

    ("-sync-to"         . k)
    ("-new"             . l) ;; l (see below) is new-ss
    ("-run-name"        . n)
    ("-mode-patt"       . o)
    ("-test-patt"       . p)  ;; idea, enhance margs ("-test-patt" "-testpatt") => yields one value in "-test-patt"
    ("-status"          . s)
    ("-target"          . t)
    ("-reqtarg"         . R)

    ("-tag-expr"        . x)
    ;; misc
    ("-debug"           . #f)  ;; for *verbosity* > 2
    ("-load"            . #f)  ;; load and exectute a scheme file
    ("-log"             . #f)
    ("-override-user"   . #f)
    ("-msg"             . M)

    ("-manual"          . #f)
    ("-version"         . #f)
    ;; misc	        
    ("-repl"            . #f)
    ("-immediate"       . I)
    ("-preclean"        . r)
    ("-prepend-contour" . w)
    ("-force"           . F)
    ("-list-pkt-keys"   . #f)
    ))

;; alist to map actions to old megatest commands
(define *action-keys*
  '((run         . "-run")
    (rerun-clean . "-rerun-clean")
    (rerun-all   . "-rerun-all")
    (kill-run    . "-kill-runs")
    (kill-rerun  . "-kill-rerun")
    (lock        . "-lock")
    (unlock      . "-unlock")
    (sync        . "")
    (archive     . "-archive")
    (set-ss      . "-set-state-status")
    (remove      . "-remove-runs")))

;; manually keep this list updated from the keys to
;; the case *action* near the end of this file.

		      ;; the script is called like this:  scriptname contour runkey std-runname action extra_param1 extra_param2 ...
		      (for-each
		       (lambda (cmd)
			 ;;(print "cmd: " cmd)
                         ;;(print "Areas: " all-areas)
                         (for-each 
                           (lambda (area) 
                             ;;(print "Area: " area)
                             ;;(print "Target: " runkey)
                             ;;(print "OR: " (or (string->number (if (configf:lookup mtconf "setup" "max_packets_per_run") (configf:lookup mtconf "setup" "max_packets_per_run") "10000" ))))
                             ;;(print "Packets generated: " packets-generated)
                             ;;(print "Comparison: " (< packets-generated 4))
                             ;;(print "Full Comparison: " 
                             ;;   (and (< packets-generated (or (string->number (if (configf:lookup mtconf "setup" "max_packets_per_run") (configf:lookup mtconf "setup" "max_packets_per_run") "10000" )) 10000))  
                             ;;        (if (args:get-arg "-target") 
                             ;;             (if (string= (args:get-arg "-target") runkey) (area-allowed? area "area-needs-to-be-run" runkey contour #f) #f) 
                             ;;             (area-allowed? area "area-needs-to-be-run" runkey contour #f))))
			    ;;(print "Area Allowed: " (area-allowed? area "area-needs-to-be-run" runkey contour #f))
;Add code to check whether area is valid
			     (if 
                   ;; This code checks whether the target has been passed in via argument, and only runs the specified target
                   (and (< packets-generated (or (string->number (if (configf:lookup mtconf "setup" "max_packets_per_run") (configf:lookup mtconf "setup" "max_packets_per_run") "10000" )) 10000))  (if (args:get-arg "-target") 
                     (if (string= (args:get-arg "-target") runkey) (area-allowed? area "area-needs-to-be-run" runkey contour #f) #f) 
                     (area-allowed? area "area-needs-to-be-run" runkey contour #f)))
       
			     (let* ((script (car cmd))
				(params (cdr cmd))
				(cmd    (conc script " " contour " " area " " runkey " " std-runname " " action " " params))
				(res    (handle-exceptions

                                       ;;               runtrans)
				       (print "key-msg: " key-msg)
				       ;;(push-run-spec torun contour
				;;		      (if optional  ;; we need to be able to differentiate same contour, different behavior. 
				;;			  (conc runkey ":" optional)  ;; NOTE: NOT COMPLETELY IMPLEMENTED. DO NOT USE
				;;			  runkey)
				;;		      key-msg)
                                       ))))) (print "Skipping area: " area " and target: " runkey " due to packets-generated: " packets-generated " higher than " (configf:lookup mtconf "setup" "max_packets_per_run") )   )    ) (filter (lambda (x) (if (not (args:get-arg "-area")) #t (if (string= x (args:get-arg "-area")) #t #f))) all-areas))
		       ) val-alist)) ;; iterate over the param split by ;\s*

		     ;; fossil scm based triggers
		     ;;
		     ((fossil)
		      (for-each
		       (lambda (fspec)

	;    (hash-table-set! args:arg-hash "-log" logf)) ;; fake out future queries of -log
	(print *default-log-port* "Sending log output to " logf)
	(set! *default-log-port* oup)
)))

(if *action*
    (case (string->symbol *action*)
      ((run remove rerun rerun-clean rerun-all set-ss archive kill list kill-run kill-rerun lock unlock)
          
       (let* ((mtconfdat (simple-setup (args:get-arg "-start-dir")))
	      (mtconf    (car mtconfdat))
	      (area      (args:get-arg "-area")) ;; look up the area to dispatch to from [areas] section
	      (areasec   (if area (configf:lookup mtconf "areas" area) #f))
	      (areadat   (if areasec (common:val->alist areasec) #f))
	      (area-path (if areadat (alist-ref 'path areadat) #f))
	      (pktsdirs  (configf:lookup mtconf "setup" "pktsdirs"))