INVOKING GiD

When starting the GiD program from a shell or script it is possible to supply several 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] batchfile] [filename] [-h] [-p problem] [-e cmd] [-n] [-n2] [-c][-c2]

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

Options are:

Other useful options are:

gid -compress [ -123456789ad] file_name_in file_name_out

in order to compress (gzip) a file, e.g. to compress '.dat' files or new postprocess formatted data files.

And:

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

in order 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 format (recommended) is 1.1.