Command-Line Options

Any of the option keywords that can be placed in the "options" section of the initialization file may be given on the command line instead. See section Option Control.

Each keyword has a hyphen in front of it when used on the command line.

Examples:

sd -singlespace plus
sdtty -no_warnings -active_phantoms

In addition to giving these options if you invoke the program from the command line, you can place them (and the level also, if you wish) in a Windows shortcut. For example, you can place an icon on your desktop that runs Sd at A2, with the color_by_corners scheme. Make a copy of the standard shortcut (or make a new shortcut with the "Taskbar" option or the "Settings" operation in the Start Menu), and then use the "Properties" command to add the desired switches at the end of the "Target" line.

There are X resources associated with some options: Sd.sequenceFile is equivalent to the -sequence switch, and Sd.databaseFile is equivalent to -db.

If you almost always will be passing the the same value for a command-line switch, you may find it more convenient to set the corresponding resource.

With the X Window System interface, Sd accepts all Xt command-line options. The following are some of the more useful options for use with Sd.

-rv

reverse video

-bg color

background color

-fg color

foreground color

-bd color

border color

-font font

font used everywhere

-geometry geom-spec

geometry in pixels

-title string

title for window manager and icon use

-name string

name to look up resources under. default: program name.

-xrm resource-line

an X resource manager string.

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