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INVOKING GiD

When starting the GiD program from a shell or script it is possible to supply some options in the same command line.

With

gid -help

The program will list the possible command line options.

Command line syntax:

gid [-b[{+/-}g][{+/-}i][{+/-}w] batch_file] [filename] [-h] [-p problem] [-e anything] [-n] [-n2] [-c] 

All options and filename are optional. filename is the name of a problem to be opened (extension .gid is optional)

Options are:

• -b batchfile executes batch_file as a script file (see section Batch file).
  • +/- g Enable/Disable Graphics (if -g, GiD doesn't redraw until the batch file has finished.)
  • +/- i Enable/Disable GraphInput (enable or disable peripherals while the batch file is being executed: mouse, keyboard, ...)
  • +/- w Enable/Disable Windows (GiD displays, or not, windows which require interaction with the user)
• -h shows GiD's command line arguments.
• -p problem loads problem as the type of the problem to be used for a new project.
• -e anything can continue until the end of the line. Execute anything as if it were a group of commands entered into GiD.
• -n runs the program without any window. It is most useful when used with the option batchfile.
• -n2 runs the program without any window but theTk library is loaded. This option is useful if you use Tcl commands in a batch file.
• -c conffile Takes window configuration from conffile. This file can be generated with option See section Save window configuration.
• -openglconfig ( Only for Windows): this allows the user to choose between the accelerated OpenGL, if present, or the generic implementation, if the user experiences troubles using the accelerated libraries of the graphic card.

Other useful options are:

gid -compress [ -123456789ad] file_name_in file_name_out

To compress (gzip) a file, for instance to compress '.dat' files or new postprocess formatted data files.

And

gid [ -PostBinaryFormat { 1.0 / 1.1}] -PostResultsToBinary file_in file_out

To transform ASCII results files into compressed binary ones. You can select whether to use the binary format 1.0 or 1.1. The default, and recommended, is the 1.1.

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