1.1 General Options

Regardless of whatever other command line parameters are given, avram accepts the following parameters:

-h, --help

Show a summary of options and exit.

-V,-v, --version

Show the version of program and a short copyleft message and exit.

--emulation=version

Be backward compatible with an older version of avram. This option should include a valid version number, for example 0.13.0, which is the version of avram to be emulated. It can make virtual code applications future proof, assuming that future versions of avram correctly support backward compatibility. It may be used in conjunction with any other option in any mode of operation. This copy of the user manual has not been updated since version 0.13.0 of avram, so it is unable to document incompatibilities with later versions. The latest version of the manual may be found at http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/~fureyd/avram.

-e, --external-libraries

Show a list of libraries with which avram has been linked and whose functions therefore could be called from virtual machine programs. This growing list currently includes selected functions from fftw, glpk, gsl, kinsol, lapack, minpack, mpfr, lpsolve, Rmath and ufsparse (see Preface) which are documented further in External Libraries.

-j, --jail

This option disables execution of shell commands by virtual code applications, which is normally possible by default even for nominally non-interactive applications (see Parameter Mode Options). A virtual code application attempting to spawn a shell (using the interact combinator) when this option is selected will encounter an exception rather than successful completion of the operation. This option is provided as a security feature for running untrusted code (see Security), and is incompatible with ‘-i’, ‘-t’, and ‘-s’.

-f, --force-text-input

Normally avram will try to guess by looking at a file whether it is an ordinary text file or one that has been written in the virtual code file format, and choose a different internal representation accordingly. An application may require one representation or the other. This option tells avram to treat all input files other than the virtual code file (named in the first command line parameter) as text files regardless of whether or not it would be possible to interpret them otherwise. This option may be used in combination with any other option.

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