Bug#731236: Please document all options in man page
Mathieu Malaterre
malat at debian.org
Tue Dec 3 13:17:25 UTC 2013
Package: scilab
It would be nice if all options were documented in scilab man page
[*]. It can be automated using help2man.
Thanks.
$ scilab -h
Usage:
scilab <arguments>
Possible arguments are:
-display Display: for use under Xwindow systems to set a
specific X server display.
-d Display : equivalent to -display Display.
-e Instruction : execute the scilab instruction given in
Instruction argument.
-e and -f arguments are mutually exclusive.
-f File : execute the scilab script given in File argument.
-e and -f arguments are mutually exclusive.
-l Lang : set the current language. Lang can be equal to fr or en.
-mem N : set the initial stacksize, for use with -ns argument.
-nb : do not display the Scilab banner at starting time.
-ns : do not execute scilab.start startup file. This
argument will disable many features in Scilab (Only use if you know
what you are doing).
-nouserstartup : do not execute the user startup files
SCIHOME/.scilab or SCIHOME/scilab.ini.
-nw : start Scilab without dedicated Scilab Window.
-nwni : start Scilab without the GUI, graphic and help
features (batch mode). This argument disables the need of Java.
-nogui : See -nwni
-args : accept all extra arguments and make them
available through sciargs
-version : print product version and exit.
-h/--help : display help about this command.
--texmacs : reserved for TeXMacs.
Developer arguments:
-debug : Start Scilab under gdb (Unix/linux only).
define the variable SCILAB_GDB_OPT to add
custom arguments to gdb.
-debug-kdbg : Start Scilab under kdbg (Unix/linux only).
-profiling : Start Scilab under valgrind (Unix/linux only).
define the variable SCILAB_VALGRIND_OPT to add
custom arguments to
valgrind (and override the existing valgrind arguments).
-profiling-visu : Start Scilab under callgrind (Unix/linux only).
define the variable SCILAB_VALGRIND_OPT to add
custom arguments to
callgrind (and override the existing callgrind
arguments).
-electric-fence : Start Scilab with the Electric Fence (Unix/linux only).
All these arguments can be retrieved by the Scilab function sciargs.
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