Startup Command Line Options

    

Gravity has the following optional command line arguments. The one of general interest to the user is disabling the splash screen on startup (/NOLOGO).
Usage
To use these options, create a Windows shortcut to "Gravity.exe" – then right-click the shortcut and select "Properties." In the "Target" field, add the path to Gravity followed by a space, forward slash, and the option. You should leave the "Start in .." field set to the Gravity program directory.
Note: If Gravity is installed in "Program Files" or spaces are in the path name, you must quote the entire path (but not the option) with double quotes like this:
"C:\Program Files\Microplanet\Gravity 2.9\gravity.exe" /OPTION
or
"C:\Program Files\Gravity\Gravity.exe" /OPTION

/NOLOGO Starts Gravity without showing the startup (splash) screen. Examples:
"C:\Program Files\Gravity\Gravity.exe" /NOLOGO C:\programs\Gravity\Gravity.exe /NOLOGO

/SOCKET If you start Gravity with the /Socket option, Gravity will create trace files of the interaction with the news server.  The files have a .TRC extension.
C:\programs\Gravity\Gravity.exe /SOCKET
This command does the same thing as the TRACE command (File - Trace File). However, tracing will continue until you exit the program. You can turn off tracing or log the GROUP command from the menu command, but not with this option.
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/VCRFILE: This tool was included to automatically fetch articles from multiple servers. You can specify the name of a VCR file to automatically launch when you run the program.  Gravity will load the VCR definition and start executing it.  For example:
"C:\Program Files\Gravity\Gravity.exe" /vcrfile:MYFILE.vcr
Would cause Gravity to load the MYFILE.vcr file and process all of the servers and/or newsgroups that are defined in it.  You define and save VCR files from within the VCR tool itself.
To use the command line switch:
First, you have to save the .vcr file from Gravity's VCR command window.
You can make different shortcuts to start with different vcr files.
The VCR command can be difficult to troubleshoot. These are hints:
·      If Gravity does not automatically connect to the first server, try disabling "connect at startup" in server properties for the first server.
·      If you have the VCR set to exit Gravity when finished,  you should disable the warning in View - Global Options - Warnings: Exiting Gravity” or the warning dialog will stop the process until manually dismissed.
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/SAFESTART Gravity treats certain database entries as corrupt and re-creates them. Currently, we are not sure if this does anything.
C:\programs\Gravity\Gravity.exe /SAFESTART
/LOG This function writes a log with startup and initializing information. It is of little or no value to the user, intended for debugging.
C:\programs\Gravity\Gravity.exe /LOG