How do I run without a window.

Squeak Smalltalk wallenberg at gmail.com
Sat Nov 13 12:27:24 UTC 2004


Thx for the information.
I had tested the headless option without success.
I can't find out how I can :
- Start one program on one file then exit. Like 
"process_file.exe File_name"

Best Regards
W.

On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 12:23:44 +0100, Bernhard Pieber <bernhard at pieber.com> wrote:
> Squeak Smalltalk <wallenberg at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> > I try to port one of our Java App to Squeak.
> > My first problem is that this app run on a server and process some files.
> > We do not have any window on this server.
> >
> > So how do I start/stop the squeak app ?
> > Today it runs with crontab on the server.
> >
> > Probably I'm missing some thing.
> >
> > Thx for any help,advice or link ;)
> To run Squeak without a window is referred to as running it headless. I
> have never tried it myself, but a search for "headless" on the Squeak
> Swiki brought the following pages:
> 
> - http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/105
> - http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/1111
> 
> Basically, you should be able to just use the command line option
> -headless. In case you want to run it on a Windows server, you can also
> run it as a System service.
> 
> Good luck!
> 
> - Bernhard
> 
>



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