Hi William,
You can run map calculations through L3DT from the command line by using the
batch files (.def.xml or .run), or by running script files (python or L3DT's native 'ZeoScript' script language).
So, in Windows it is:
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l3dt.exe "my batch file.run"
or
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l3dt.exe "my map definition.def.xml"
or
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l3dt.exe "my Python script file.py"
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l3dt.exe "my ZeoScript script file.zs"
And in Linux it would (should?) be:
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wine l3dt.exe "my batch file.run"
etc...
L3DT's user interface is still shown when using these command-line options. However, it doesn't consume many clock cycles, so I don't think there would be much benefit in turning it off entirely. You can however disable parts of it, such as the progress display. This is done by going to '
Settings->Local settings', then setting the '
UI->Dialogs->Progress->DrawGrid' flag to false. Minimising L3DT also has the effect of disabling the user interface.
As for performance; I haven't yet done a timed comparison of Windows versus Wine/Linux performance, but my general impression was that running L3DT in Linux with Wine was not noticeably faster than L3DT running natively in Windows XP, and could have been slower. I'll do a proper performance comparison today or tomorrow.
Cheerio,
Aaron.