Overview of the Windows XSpice.exe Spice engine:
This is a very basic gui featured Windows port. Its main intent is to provide a raw simulation engine for the SuperSpice GUI. This port provides no Graphic support. You may load/write/edit file_name.cir files, run the engine and display the spice output, within the application in text form only.
It is usually run in batch mode via the windows command line:
-r output_file_name.out -b input_filename.cir
or by an application spawning it as a task as in WinExec("command line")
Note: if the additional option "-d" is prefixed to the command line, the engine will display its busy by displaying sampled simulation data.
Automatic multiple runs can be achieved by using a "ReRun" file. Multiple standard spice output files will be generated when a ReRun file is used. The netlist syntax is:
.rerun filename.rrn
No quotes are required for file names with spaces in them.