Batch script: Introduction

Warning: Support for batch script is maintained solely for historical reasons. The preferred way to specify variations on a base data file is to use text data files, specifically variation models. The OrcaFlex spreadsheet offers a facility to generate these text data files.

OrcaFlex provides special facilities for running a series of variations on a base data file, using a script file. This contains a sequence of commands to read a data file, make modifications to it, and run the modified file, storing the results for later processing. The file can also include comments. The syntax for the instructions is described in the next topic.

Script files can be written using any text editor. However, it is quite unusual to do this because there are very productive facilities in the OrcaFlex spreadsheet for automatically generating script files for regular sets of cases.