6.1.2 IDE Command line options

When starting the IDE, command line options can be passed:

Option is one of the following switches (the option letters are case insensitive):

-N

(dos only) Do not use long file names. Windows 95 and later versions of Windows provide an interface to DOS applications to access long file names. The IDE uses this interface by default to access files. Under certain circumstances, this can lead to problems. This switch tells the IDE not to use the long filenames.

-Cfilename

This option, followed by a filename, tells the IDE to read its options from filename. There should be no whitespace between the file name and the -C.

-F

use alternative graphic characters. This can be used to run the IDE on linux in an X-term or through a telnet session.

-R

After starting the IDE, it changes automatically to the directory which was active when the IDE exited the last time.

-S

Disable the mouse. When this option is used, then the mouse is disabled, even if a mouse is present.

-Tttyname

(linux/unix only) Sends program output to tty ttyname. This is useful so one doesn’t have to switch between program output and ide all the time.

The files given at the command line are loaded into edit windows automatically.

Remark: Under DOS/Win32, the first character of a command-line option can be a / character instead of a - character. So /S is equivalent to -S.