Command line Options

  To make FIT2D more versatile and for easier use, and for ``batch''    mode applications a number of command line options are available. FIT2D may be started with ``landscape'' graphics instead of the default ``portrait'' graphics, the ``keyboard'' interface may be used instead of the GUI, and the graphics system may be ``turned-off'', (this is only valid when the ``keyboard'' interface is being used). (Complicated command line calls may be made simpler and shorter through the use of ``aliases''.) The manner in which the command line options work is best illustrated by an example. The following is an example command line which may be used:

> fit2d -dim1152x1482 -land -key

The command line would start FIT2D in the following manner:

-dim1152x1482 Starts FIT2D with programs arrays of 1152 pixels in the X-direction and 1482 pixels in the Y-direction

-land Starts the graphics in ``landscape'' mode i.e. the graphics window appears wider than its height and PostScript output is printed in this orientation.

-key Starts-up FIT2D with the ``keyboard'' interface instead of the default GUI.

The different options are described in greater detail below: