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<h1>Command-line options</h1>
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When you start Scid from a shell or console, there are command-line
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options you can specify. Scid-format databases (with or without a
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file suffix such as ".si3") and PGN files to be opened can be given,
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<li>scid mybase newgames.pgn</li>
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will start Scid and open the Scid database called mybase and the
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PGN file named newgames.pgn.
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There are also optional arguments to control which files Scid should
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search for and use when it starts. You can turn off the use of
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<a href="TB.html">tablebases</a> with the <b>-xtb</b> (or <b>-xt</b>) option,
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avoid loading the <a href="ECO.html">ECO openings classification</a> file with
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<b>-xeco</b> or <b>-xe</b>, and avoid loading the
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<a href="Maintenance.html#Spellcheck">spelling</a> file
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with <b>-xspell</b> or <b>-xs</b>. Also, the option <b>-fast</b>
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or <b>-f</b> does all three, so <b>scid -f</b> is equivalent
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to <b>scid -xeco -xspell -xtb</b>.
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<p><center><font size=-1>(Updated: Scid 3.1, November 2001)</font></center></p>
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