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run ticcmd in a command prompt with no arguments to see what arguments the program supports.
For example, to send an Exit Safe Start command and tell the Tic to travel to a particular position, you
could run ticcmd --exit-safe-start --position 1234 . If ticcmd is installed correctly, then its folder
should be listed in your PATH environment variable, meaning that other programs can find it and run it
without knowing exactly where it is. The ticcmd utility takes care of all the details of finding the Tic you
want to talk to, encoding your command properly for the Tic’s USB interface, sending the command,
and then cleaning up after itself. If an error happens, ticcmd will print an error message to its standard
error pipe and return a non-zero exit code. Your software can look at the non-zero exit code to detect
if an error happened, or just ignore the error.
We plan to expand this section of the user’s guide to contain tutorials and example code
for many different programming languages. Please contact us [https://www.pololu.com/
contact] if you have any questions.
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