The Malaga programs are all started in a similar manner: either you give the name of a project file as argument (this is not possible if you start malrul or malsym), or you give the name of the files that are needed by the program (for malmake, you have to give the project file as argument). The file type is recognised by the file name ending.
Assume you've written a grammar that consists of a symbol file ``english.sym'', an allomorph rule file ``english.all'', a lexicon file ``english.lex'' and a morphology rule file ``english.mor'', and you have also written a project file ``english.pro''. Then you can start the program malaga by two ways (after you've compiled the grammar files):
malaga english.pro
or
malaga english.sym_c english.mor_c english.lex_c
If you use the first command line, the names of the grammar files will be read from the project file. The second command line contains the names of the compiled files explicitly. The order of the names is of no importance. The name of the allomorph rule file must not be included if you are starting malaga, since this file is not used by malaga itself, but it's needed by mallex to compile the lexicon file.
If you just want to know which version of a Malaga program you are using, you can get the version number by using the option ``-version'' or `` -v'':
malrul -version
The program only emits a few lines with information about its version number and its purpose.