Megatest

	  (change-directory *toppath*) 
	  (let ((rconfig (full-runconfigs-read))) ;; (read-config (conc  *toppath* "/runconfigs.config") #f #t sections: (list "default" target))))
	    ;; (setup-env-defaults (conc *toppath* "/runconfigs.config") run-id (make-hash-table) keyvals target)
	    ;; (set-run-config-vars run-id keyvals target) ;; (db:get-target db run-id))
	    ;; Now have runconfigs data loaded, set environment vars
	    (for-each (lambda (section)
			(for-each (lambda (varval)
				    (let ((var (car varval))
				    (setenv (car varval)(cadr varval)))
					  (val (cadr varval)))
				      (if (and (string? var)(string? val))
					  (setenv var val)
					  (debug:print 0 "ERROR: bad variable spec, " var "=" val))))
				  (configf:get-section rconfig section)))
		      (list "default" target)))
	  (change-directory work-area) 
	  ;; Setup the *runremote* global var
	  (if *runremote* (debug:print 2 "ERROR: I'm not expecting *runremote* to be set at this time"))
	  ;; (set! *runremote* runremote)
	  ;; (set! *transport-type* (string->symbol transport))

    (setenv "MT_ITEMPATH" item-path)
    (if hosts (set! hosts (string-split hosts)))
    ;; set the megatest to be called on the remote host
    (if (not remote-megatest)(set! remote-megatest local-megatest)) ;; "megatest"))
    (set! mt-bindir-path (pathname-directory remote-megatest))
    (if launcher (set! launcher (string-split launcher)))
    ;; set up the run work area for this test
    (if (args:get-arg "-preclean") ;; user has requested to preclean for this run
    (if (and (args:get-arg "-preclean") ;; user has requested to preclean for this run
	     (not (equal? (db:test-get-rundir testinfo) "n/a"))) ;; n/a is a placeholder and thus not a read dir
	(begin 
	  (debug:print-info 0 "attempting to preclean directory " (db:test-get-rundir testinfo) " for test " test-name "/" item-path)
	  (runs:remove-test-directory #f testinfo #t))) ;; remove data only, do not perturb the record
    (set! diskpath (get-best-disk *configdat*))
    (if diskpath
	(let ((dat  (create-work-area run-id run-info keyvals test-id test-path diskpath test-name itemdat)))
	  (set! work-area (car dat))