Edit Utility Options

You can use Tikal to create and modify utility options files that you can then use when executing a utility.

Syntax

The generic syntax for editing a utility option file is:

C:\>tikal [<util> ]-eu <optFile>

Where:

• The optional <util> is the utility set and utility identifiers, for example: oku_set01:extraction, or oku_set01:rewriting.
  • If you do not specify a utility set identifier and the options file already exists, the utility information is taken from the options file.
  • If you do not specify a utility set identifier and the options file does not exist, oku_set01 is to be used by default (so you can just type "tikal extraction -eu myOptions.opt" instead of "tikal oku_set01:extraction -eu myOptions.opt". If you do not specify a utility identifier either, oku_set01:extraction is used by default, so you can just type "tikal -eu myOptions.opt" instead of "tikal oku_set01:extraction -eu myOptions.opt".
• <optFile> is the options filename. The file can have any extension you want.

To list all the utilities available on your system, use the command:

C:\>tikal -lu

Examples

C:\>tikal merging -eu MergingOptions.opt

Edits the options for the merging utility of the oku_set01 utility set and saves the results in the file MergingOptions.opt.

C:\>tikal -eu Step2Options.opt

Edits the existing options file Step2Options.opt. The utility identifiers are taken from the file.