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suppressing keyboard input
Post 57248 by RTM on Thursday 21st of October 2004 11:05:31 AM
10-21-2004
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version [--user admin_user] [--password admin_password] [--host localhost] [--port 4848] [--secure |-s] [--passwordfile filename] [--terse=false] [--echo=false] [--interactive] [--verbose=false] version displays the version information. If the command-line cannot communicate with the administration server with the given user/pass- word and host/port, then the command-line will retrieve the Version locally and display a warning message. If the user option is not entered, the command-line will retrieve the version locally and display a warning message. The warning message will not be displayed if --terse option is entered on the command line. OPTIONS
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