# 1.6 Start the Program

The XTrackCAD executable is named xtrkcad.exe on Windows and xtrkcad on Linux.

Command Line

On Windows:

    xtrkcad [/c config] [/v] [/l logfile] [/d logcontrol] layoutfile

On Linux:

    xtrkcad [-c config] [-v] [-l logfile] [-d logcontrol] layoutfile

Command line parameters

`c config`
  configuration to use. This allows you to have several distinct configurations (eg. parameter files, display options).

`layoutfile`
  filename for the layout to load. This parameter takes precedence over the option to resume with the last layout (Section 2.10.7).

Debugging Parameters

The following parameters are for debugging purposes and are mainly of interest to the developers.

`v`
  verbose mode.

`d logcontrol`
  specifies the amount of logging. The argument logcontrol has the format `logmodule[=level]`. logmodule defines the functionality that should be logged, the optional level specifies the loglevel. Defaults are no modules are logged and loglevel is 1 if omitted from logonctrol parameter.

`l logfile`
  set logfile, only needed in conjunction with the debug option.