HP IA-64 Ski Simulator Command Line Reference Guide

Ski IA-64 Simulator Reference Manual 1.0L

Figure 2-3. The Command-Line bski Interface

2.5Starting Ski

To start the Ski simulator, type its name (ski, xski, or bski) and any necessary command line options and file redirec- tions, just as you would start any other Linux program. (Command line options are described in Section 2.5.1, “Command Line Flags”.) The simplest invocation of the simulator is:

ski

This starts the (curses-based) ski version of the simulator with no program loaded: a “bare” IA-64 emulation is ready for you to use.

A more sophisticated invocation would be:

xski my_program

This starts the (X/Motif-based) xski version of the simulator and loads the IA-64 executable file my_program, ready to run. The program will not receive any command line arguments (via the argc/argv mechanism) when you run it.

To run the simulator as a batch job in the background on an all-night run, you might execute this command line:

bski -noconsole -stats -i my_commands my_program foo bar <test_data >out_stuff 2>bad_news &

This invokes the (batch) bski version of the simulator and loads the IA-64 executable file my_program, ready to run. The -noconsoleflag tells bski not to create a separate console window for the program’s standard I/O. The program will receive the command line arguments foo and bar via the argc/argv mechanism when bski runs it. Both the simulator and the program being simulated will have standard in, standard out, and standard err redirected from/to test_data, out_stuff, and bad_news, respectively, and the simulator will execute the commands in my_commands. (Ski never reads from standard in, so there is no possibility of confusion.) The -statsflag specifies that at the end of the run, collected statistics will be output to standard out (which is redirected). The ampersand (“ &”) runs the job in the background.

2.5.1Command Line Flags

The simulator accepts certain flags on the command line when you start it up. The flags are passed on the command line in

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