Summary of PV-WAVE Startup Commands

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You can start PV‑WAVE in Home window mode or Console window mode. The command syntax for each mode is presented in Command Line Syntax for Running PV‑WAVE.

Table 3-1: Command Line Syntax for Running PV‑WAVE
Command	Mode
wave	Run PV‑WAVE in a Console window. (The options are described in the next table.)
wavewin2	Run the PV‑WAVE Home window.

The command line options available for the wave command are listed in Command Line Options for the wave Command.

Table 3-2: Command Line Options for the wave Command
Command Line Option	Meaning
filename	Execute a command file during startup.
–r or –rt plus filename	Start PV‑WAVE in runtime mode. The previously compiled application stored in filename starts automatically.
Note: Command line options are not case-sensitive. In other words, they can be entered in either lower, mixed, or upper case.

note	Several of PV‑WAVE’s command line options can be combined on one command line.

Standard I/O and Error Redirection

Previous versions of PV‑WAVE on Windows (before Version 6.0), allowed command line flags for standard I/O and error redirection. With Version 6.0, these flags are no longer supported. Instead you can use standard I/O redirection on the command line. For example, the previous command line flags:

wave -i infile -o outfile -e errfile

can be replaced with:

wave < infile > outfile 2> errfile

in PV-WAVE 6.0 and later.

Only the wave command supports I/O redirection. The command wavewin does not support any I/O or error redirection.

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