Starting Celestia from command promt

[fungun]

I feel silly asking this, but I just don't get DOS commands.
I have gone through the forum and the users guide.
How do i get into edit mode?
I tried this "cd Celesta" and this "./Celestia--verbose> align.log", I even tried this "C:\Program Files\Celestia\Celestia.exe".
I keep getting errors or path not founds.
When I go to "Start" "All Programs" "Command Promt" I get the DOS window with this in it "C:\Documents and Settings\Tim>"
Don't where to go from there.
I am using Windows XP SP3

Thanks,
Tim

[Guckytos]

I feel silly asking this, but I just don't get DOS commands.
I have gone through the forum and the users guide.
How do i get into edit mode?
I tried this "cd Celesta" and this "./Celestia--verbose> align.log", I even tried this "C:\Program Files\Celestia\Celestia.exe".
I keep getting errors or path not founds.
When I go to "Start" "All Programs" "Command Promt" I get the DOS window with this in it "C:\Documents and Settings\Tim>"
Don't where to go from there.
I am using Windows XP SP3

Thanks,
Tim

Hi Tim,

I am not sure what you mean with "edit mode". What do you want to do with Celestia?

DOS is lovely A long time ago I had real fun making all kinds of batch programs to make life easier.

Now back to your question:
First of all you have to know where Celestia is stored.
If it is "C:\Program Files\Celestia\Celestia.exe" then you have to open the "Command Prompt" and then enter "cd C:\Program Files\Celestia" to get into the right folder.
Now that you are in the folder you can call up Celestia with all the needed arguments, i.e. "Celestia--verbose> align.log" (of course only if Celestia understands those arguments).
But these commands are not stored anywhere, they are just executed once.
If you want to repeat the commands you have to write a batch file "*.bat" (with any text editor and store it where you need it)

Regards,

Guckytos

[selden]

Maybe it's just the way you transferred the command into the forum window, but...
I see no spaces separating the qualifiers in what's shown above. Spaces are required as delimiters between the "atoms" so that Celestia's command scanner can properly interpret what you've typed. In my example below, I'll use a % to indicate where a space is required.

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.\celestia % --verbose % > % align.log


Actually, the space between > and align.log is optional.

[fungun]

Thanks guys, got it

Tim