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3.8 Command-line Tool

The command line version of Msc-generator runs on both Linux and Windows. On Windows it is installed to the same directory as the windowed application. That directory is included in the PATH, so you can call it from anywhere.

The command line version of Msc-generator supports PNG, PDF, EPS, SVG file formats, and EMF on Windows. It can read only signalling charts on Linux, since there it is easy to get native graphviz support.

To use Msc-generator to generate a signalling chart from a text file (containing a singalling chart description in the appropriate language) simply type

msc-gen -T pdf inputfile.signalling

To use Msc-generator to generate a graph or block diagram from a text file (containing a graph description in the DOT or block languages, respectively ) simply type

msc-gen -T pdf inputfile.graph

or

msc-gen -T pdf inputfile.block

All of these will give you inputfile.pdf. You can change ‘pdf’ to get the other file formats. If you omit the ‘-T’ switch altogether, a PNG will be generated.

If Msc-generator has successfully generated an output, it prints ‘Success.’. Instead, or in addition, it may print warnings or errors, when it does not understand something.