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ATE Reference

The last step of the installation program is to build for you a desktop or start menu shortcut that contains the instructions needed to launch ATE. To launch ATE, therefore, you simply run the instructions embedded in the shortcut by double-clicking on it; that's all there is to it. For normal operation of ATE in most environments, nothing else is required and you can skip the rest of this chapter. If you have some reason for needing a special launch of ATE, read on.

Typically, the installation will place onto your Windows desktop an icon that looks approximately like this:

ATECOM~1_img3

If you right-click on the icon and select "Properties," you will see that "target"—the information Windows uses to launch ATE—looks something like this:

C:\ATE\bin\ashw32.exe -i "C:\ATE\miame.ini" -g ashell1_t -z -atecfg ?

In this example, ATE was installed to the location C:\ATE; what you see will likewise reflect the folder in which ATE was installed.

The first part of the command line, which is everything before the first space, tells Windows the location and the name of the program to run. The rest of the information and instructions on the line are all command line switch options and specifications; see the following topic.

Switches Versus Configuration

ATESTART.CMD