Cross
This is the usual way of starting cross. Use it whenever you just want to work with the program normally.
Cross -d
If you start Cross with this command line, you enter a special message data debug mode; messages will be displayed together with the corresponding message number. This is only needed if you've created a new translation and you want to debug obscure problems with it. More documentation on this will follow later.
You need to add a ``ASSIGN Cross: somewhere'' before starting the program, where ``somewhere'' is the place where you installed the Cross main directory. Cross needs this to find its additional files:
| File or directory | Meaning |
| DATA | data directory |
| DATA/Cross.prefs | contains user preferences |
| DATA/msgtxt.data | contains the mulitlingual messages |
| DATA/words_eng.crw | German word data file |
| DATA/words_ger.crw | English word data file |
| DATA/words_ita.crw | Italian word data file |
| DATA/words_eto.crw | Esperanto word data file |
| DATA/ (...) .crd | crossword data files |