Description
X-windows version of VARKON for UNIX. xvarkon can also be configured to drive older type serial terminals or emulators with tektronix/VT300 based graphics.
The -b option can be used to run Varkon in batch mode. In batch mode the name of a project as well as a job must be specified on the commandline. Varkon loads the job, runs it silently and exits automatically. Error messages etc. are written to a file named jobname.LOG in the active jobdirectory.
Syntax
xvarkon project_name job_name -r -v -x -DRAWING -GEOMETRY -LOCAL -GLOBAL
-BASIC -global_ref -pmnbytes -rtsnbytes -gmnpages -iresourcefile -dnl
-xrmres
Options preceded by a minus sign should be followed by their value without any separating blank spaces.
Options
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xvarkon
Starts with default values for all options. The system will promt for project and job name.
xvarkon buildings
Starts with default values for all options except the name of the project. The system will not promt for project name but will ask for the name of the job.
xvarkon bearings ball_539 -gm1000
Starts a job named ball_539 in project bearings. The memory buffer for GM is set to 1000 pages. Default values will be used for all other options.
xvarkon -icommon_toolbar -imy_toolbar
Forces VARKON to read resources from "common_toolbar"and "my_toolbar". If the same resourcename is defined in both files the resource value from the second file owerwrites the value from the first file.
xvarkon -r
Starts the system in explicit (non generic) drafting mode.
Comments
On startup xvarkon always checks for the existence of resource files in the following places:
1: /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/Varkon
2: $XENVIRONMENT/.Xdefaults
3: $HOME/.Xdefaults
Any resources found in any of these places are loaded automatically. Next step is to load any resources explicitly defined on the command line using the -xrm option:
4: -xrmres
Finally you may specify one or two additional resourcefiles on the commandline using the -i option:
5: -ifile1
6: -ifile2
The same resource may be defined in more than one of these places but only the latest value merged is left in the database. A value defined in file2 will rule out a value defined in file1 or earlier. Note that this beahviour is different from VARKON95 for Windows95/NT.
xvarkon needs the following shell environment parameters to be set up in order to function properly. If not defined default values below are used instead.
VARKON_ERM Error message files Default
= /usr/v3/erm
VARKON_DOC Help files Default
= /usr/v3/doc
VARKON_PID Project files Default
= /usr/v3/pid
VARKON_MDF Menu files Default
= /usr/v3/mdf
VARKON_LIB The VARKON library Default
= /usr/v3/lib
VARKON_TMP Temporary files Default
= /usr/v3/tmp
VARKON_PRD Default project directory
Default = /usr/v3/prd
VARKON_FNT Fonts for graphical text
Default = /usr/v3/cnf/fnt
VARKON_TOL Tolerance files Default
= /usr/v3/cnf/tol
VARKON_PLT Plotter configuration files
Default = /usr/v3/cnf/plt
VARKON_ICO Bitmaps for toolbar icons
Default = /usr/v3/cnf/ico
xvarkon also relies on the value of the $PATH variable to spawn the MBS-compiler mbsc or drivers for various plotter devices. $PATH is usually modified in VARKON's startscript to include $VARKON_ROOT/bin where the VARKON executable files are located.
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