The MOSEK command line tool Version 7.0 (Revision 141)

18 CHAPTER 3. MOSEK AND AMPL
3.11 Using the command line version of the AMPL interface
AMPL can generate a data file containing all the optimization problem and all relevant information
which can then be read and solved by the MOSEK command line tool.
When the problem has been loaded into AMPL, the commands
ampl: option auxfiles rc;
ampl: write bprob;
will make AMPL write the appropriate data files, i.e.
prob.nl
prob.col
prob.row
Then the problem can be solved using the command line version of MOSEK as follows
mosek prob.nl outlev=10 -a
The -a command line option indicates that MOSEK is invoked in AMPL mode. When MOSEK is
invoked in AMPL mode the normal MOSEK command line options should appear after the -a option
except for the file name which should be the first argument. As the above example demonstrates
MOSEK accepts command line options as specified by the AMPL ”convention”. Which command line
arguments MOSEK accepts in AMPL mode can be viewed by executing
mosek -= -a
For linear, quadratic and quadratic constrained problems a text file representation of the problem can
be obtained using one of the commands
mosek prob.nl -a -x -out prob.mps
mosek prob.nl -a -x -out prob.opf
mosek prob.nl -a -x -out prob.lp