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      </table><br><p class="para_topic"> On Windows, you can launch a journal from an external command line using the following command:</p><pre class="indent">run_journal &lt;filename&gt; -args &lt;string arguments&gt;</pre><p class="para_topic">where:</p>
      <p class="para_topic"> &lt;filename&gt; = a valid journal filename &lt;string arguments&gt; = an optional array of string arguments that are passed through to your main() routine</p>
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