[Q] VM Command Line Options

David T. Lewis lewis at mail.msen.com
Tue Sep 2 09:44:54 UTC 2003


On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 01:22:12AM -0400, Webb McDonald wrote:
> hello-
> 
> I have a question about sending command line options to the image,
> via the VM invocation.  I need to send command line options but I
> cannot depend on the existence of a .st "startup script" file.
> 
> what I want:
> >squeak.exe bot.image arg1 arg2
> 
> what seems to be required:
> >squeak.exe bot.image startup.st arg1 arg2
> 
> Is there any simple way to get around this weird requirement?
> I do not have any such .st I want to read, and really cannot depend on one
> existing in the directory.

There is now a preference to control this:

  world menu -> appearance... -> preferences -> general -> readDocumentAtStartup

Dave



More information about the Squeak-dev mailing list