MAE Command Line Options (6/97)

This article describes the Macintosh Application Environment (MAE) command line options.
To alter the MAE environment use one of these command line arguments when you start MAE. These command line arguments, listed below, are invoked when MAE starts up.

-display dpy
X server on which to display
EXAMPLE: -display opus:0.0

-geometry WxH+X+Y
size and location of window (Mae.geometry)
EXAMPLE: -geometry 600x400+4+4

-iconic
start iconic (Mae.iconic)

-title string
title string (Mae.title)

-sysfol systemfolder
System Folder path (Mae.systemFolder)
EXAMPLE /tmp/sys

-appledir appledirectory
Apple resource directory path (Mae.appleDirectory)
EXAMPLE /opt/apple

This is the location of the apple directory

-memory memorysize
Macintosh memory size in megabytes (m = megabytes, k = kilobytes)
EXAMPLE -memory 17m

-maxdepth bitdepth
maximum frame buffer bit depth (Mae.maximumDepth)

-installcmap
force the installation of X colormap (Mae.installColormap)

-caseon
force case sensitivity (Mae.caseOn)

-nosound
turn off sound (Mae.noSound)

-filedouble
force Apple Double file format (Mae.fileDouble)
This is helpful when UNIX applications attempt to open files that were saved or copied from within MAE. See also asdtool.

-fstimeout
set file system timeout interval (Mae.fsTimeout)
EXAMPLE: -fstimeout 60
Useful if HOME is NFS Mounted, and Patch 2 does not fix errors such as 'Unable to access .mac'

-noextensions
startup with no Extensions

-rebuild
rebuild Desktop database

-zappram
zap VPRAM settings

-help
print out this message

-version
print out version information
Published Date: Feb 18, 2012