ECLiPSe Command Line Options

The following command line options may be specified

-b bootfile

      Compile the file bootfile before starting the session or before saving the state using the -s option.

-e goal

    Instead of starting an interactive toplevel-loop, the system will execute the goal goal. goal is given in normal Prolog syntax, and has to be quoted if it contains any characters that would normally be interpreted by the shell. The -e option can be used together with the -b option and is executed afterwards. If the -e option is used together with the saved state option -s, then the goal will not be executed when making the saved state, but when restoring it.

The exit status of the ECLiPSe process reflects success or failure of the   executed Prolog goal (0 for success, 1 for failure).

-p size

    The size of the page buffer area for the database handling is set to size kbytes. The default value is 400 kbytes.

-r file

      Restore a saved state from the file file.

-s file

        Save the ECLiPSe state into the executable file file. This option is normally used together with the -b option as follows:

eclipse -b mybootfile.pl -s myeclipse

This will create a ECLiPSe save state called myeclipse in the current directory, which has the bootfile mybootfile.pl already compiled in.

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The ECLiPSe system will ignore this argument and everything that follows on the commmand line. The Prolog program will only see the part of the command line that follows this argument.

More command line options are described in chapter .