Command line options

You can start soas from the unix prompt with the following arguments:

• To start soas in the expert mode, type soas expert
• To set the default editor, type soas -Ename where name is the editor name (e.g. -Evi' to use vi instead of emacs).
• With the option save, the stack of buffers is saved when you quit soas.
• With the option 'load,' a saved stack is loaded when you start soas,
• The option -ffExpression
  The following options are designed to try and use soas for various softwares. ``Expression'' can be either of: GPES,CH,EGGsave,EGGexport. You can define the default file format options for a directory by editing a soas.ff config file in that directory. See the section about configuration files.
• You can define which files should be listed (when you use the Load, Save and broWse commands) using the option -listpatternExpression. If you want to list the ``*.[fF][iI]*'' files, start soas with the option
  -listpattern\*.\[fF\]\[iI\]\*
  You can put several -lispatternExpression options.
  
• checkptoff It happens that files exported by GPES contain a data point that is completely off scale...(often at X=0,Y=0). After loading a scan, soas cann look for such points and delete them. Use option nocheckptoff to enable this feature. This can be turned on and off while you are using soas by using the commend check.
  
• the option letter sets the page format to US letter. Default is A4.

NB: soas help at prompt gives you the list of options (and abort).

You can combine the options, and/or redefine soas using an alias in your .cshrc file.