debian man page for scilab

Scilab(1)						      General Commands Manual							 Scilab(1)

NAME
       scilab - Scientific software package for numerical computations

SYNOPSIS
       scilab [ -h | -f file | -e instruction | -l lang | -mem n | -nw | -nwni | -nogui | -nb | -ns | -nouserstartup | -version ]
       This manual page documents briefly the scilab commands.

OPTIONS
       A complete list of options is included below.

       -h     Show the list of options.

       -f file
	      Execute the scilab script given in file argument.  Note that -e and -f options are mutually exclusive.

       -e instruction
	      Execute the scilab instruction given in instruction argument.  Note that -e and -f options are mutually exclusive.

       -nw    Start Scilab without specialized Scilab Window.

       -nwni  start Scilab without the GUI, graphic and help features (batch mode).  This option disable the need of Java.

       -nogui start Scilab without user GUI (batch mode).

       -l lang
	      Launch Scilab in the specified language. The lang must be the locale code (ie fr_FR, en_US...)

       -nb    Do not display the Scilab banner at starting time.

       -ns    Do not execute scilab.start startup file

       -mem N Set the initial stacksize

       -nouserstartup
	      Do not execute the user startup files SCIHOME/.scilab or SCIHOME/scilab.ini.

       -version
	      Print product version and exit.

FILES
       ~/.Scilab/<Scilab_version>/.scilab The user startup script.
       ~/.Scilab/<Scilab_version>/scilab.ini The user startup script.
       ~/.Scilab/<Scilab_version>/configuration.xml The configuration of the GUI
       ~/.Scilab/<Scilab_version>/.history.scilab The history of commands
       SCI/modules/jvm/etc/jvm_options.xml Options given to the JVM
       SCI/etc/modules.xml List of Scilab modules
       SCI/etc/classpath.xml Where Scilab should load the Java libraries
       SCI/etc/librarypath.xml Where Scilab should look for JNI libraries

AUTHOR
       Scilab was written by the Scilab Consortium.

       This manual page was written by Sylvestre Ledru <sylvestre@debian.org>.

								 November 18, 2008							 Scilab(1)