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Chapter 4. Tasks
Tasks
Running ACE
ACE can be run in three different modes:
• GUI
• Command line
• Batch
To run in GUI mode, invoke the
ace
executable either with no options or with the
-gui
option. GUI mode
launches the interactive GUI, from which all commands are issued.
To run in command-line mode, invoke the
ace
executable with the
-b
option from a console. Command-
line mode takes control of the console and allows the user to interactively enter Tcl commands at a command
prompt.
To run in batch mode, invoke the
ace
executable with the
-b
option and the
-script file
<
script
>
option. Batch mode then runs the specified Tcl script to completion and returns a success/failure return
code.
Other command-line options
•
-project file
<
project file name
>
will load the specified project file when used in GUI
mode.
•
-log file
<
log file name
>
will specify a session log location other than the default location in
the <
user home
>
/.achronix/
directory.
•
-script args
<
arg list
>
may be used with
script file
to pass in command-line args to the
script. In this case, the
-script args
option must be the last ACE command-line option.
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