Running the SISAME Applications

The SISAME applications run in console mode. SISAME-3D, SISAME, SISAMEM, and VeCor runs are controlled by ASCII input files, templates for which are accessible from the Documentation Page.

SimFil and the most of the NHTSA Tools applications accept command line and/or prompted specifications for interactive or "batch" processing. The command line syntax can be obtained by entering a command of the form:

Program ??

where Program is the application name. The file template/hitlist usage is described in the documentation for the NHTSA Tools program LisGen. Command line arguments containing argument separators, such as spaces, should be enclosed in double quotes. If a DIR=dir_out argument is not used the program outputs will go to the first write-accessible directory in the following list:

• The current working directory
• The directory specified in the DIR_OUT environment variable (Win32) or logical (OpenVMS), if any
• The OUTPUT subdirectory of the user's home directory (C:\ on Win32 and SYS$LOGIN on OpenVMS)

Signal Files

The SISAME programs work with NHTSA UDS signal files. UDS files are cross-platform and can be directly transferred between supported platforms without conversion (the applications convert numeric formats and dimensional systems automatically during file reads). The NHTSA Tools ASC2UDS and UDSConv programs can be used to convert ASCII signal files to and from UDS format. Other NHTSA Tools applications can be used to process and display the UDS files.

Output File Naming

The default output file name is "incremented" if a file of that name exists until an unused name is found. On Win32 and Un*x a version number of the form ~n is appended.

Platform-Specific Usage Notes

Win32