How to get Hspice2002.2.2 to not pop up the initial GUI wind

[J. Michael Hammond]

I'm running Hspice2002.2.2 on a Windows box. If I just type

c:> hspice.exe

I get a very minimalist little GUI in which I can pull down
"File::Simulate" to simulate a circuit.

If I type

c:> hspice.exe -i foo.sp

the GUI window will pop up, run the simulation, and then go away.


Is there any way I can get the circuit simulation to run from the
command line without that little window popping up? I want to run a
zillion simulations and do other things on my desktop, and that little
window popping up and going away over and over and over again is about
driving me nuts.

I tried other things like -b (for batch?) -q (for quiet?) -s (for
silent?) and then I ran through the whole alphabet and nothing good
came of it. Except for -m and -n which appear to make the window pop
up and then disappear almost immediately without apparently running
anything.

Thanks for any help. If you post a follow-up to this I'd greatly
appreciate an e-mail reply as well.
--JMike

 

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[Wayne Shanks]

J. Michael Hammond wrote:

I'm running Hspice2002.2.2 on a Windows box. If I just type

c:> hspice.exe

I get a very minimalist little GUI in which I can pull down
"File::Simulate" to simulate a circuit.

If I type

c:> hspice.exe -i foo.sp

the GUI window will pop up, run the simulation, and then go away.


Is there any way I can get the circuit simulation to run from the
command line without that little window popping up? I want to run a
zillion simulations and do other things on my desktop, and that little
window popping up and going away over and over and over again is about
driving me nuts.

I tried other things like -b (for batch?) -q (for quiet?) -s (for
silent?) and then I ran through the whole alphabet and nothing good
came of it. Except for -m and -n which appear to make the window pop
up and then disappear almost immediately without apparently running
anything.

Thanks for any help. If you post a follow-up to this I'd greatly
appreciate an e-mail reply as well.
--JMike

In Windows, You can modify the properties of the .exe file so that it
starts up with the dos window minimized

right click in the .exe file and look for this option

Wayne s

 

[J. Michael Hammond]

J. Michael Hammond wrote:

...Is there any way I can get the circuit simulation to run from the
command line without that little window popping up?...

Wayne Shanks <wshanks@charm.net> wrote in message news:<ynOeb.56$YQ.237131@news.abs.net>:

In Windows, You can modify the properties of the .exe file so that it
starts up with the dos window minimized

right click in the .exe file and look for this option

Excellent, thanks Wayne. I didn't know about this option. Actually I
couldn't find it on the .exe but was able to make a shortcut and do
the 'minimized' thing on the shortcut. Works great.

--JMike