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All Synergy command line tools should support basic help and version info


Pretty basic, but ALL of the command line tools for traditional synergy should have basic commandline options:
 
-? / -h for command line help
-v  for version info
 
Lmu does this,   the other tools should as well.
 
$ lmu -?
Usage: lmu [[-u] [-p <id>] <appcd>...] [...]
   or  lmu -c|-r <name> [-l <lang>]
   or  lmu -a <appcd> -p <id> -i <key> [-x <str>]
Options:
   <none>        Display license usage and configuration information
   <appcd>       Display detailed information for specified <appcd>'s only
 
YEA!
 
$ dbl -h
 
%DBL-W-ERRFIL, Error 148 encountered
$ dbr -v
 
%DBR-E-ERRFIL, Can't open error file: ./syntxt.ism
%DBR-E-ERRFIL, SDMS error = File not found
%DBR-E-ERRFIL, Error 1077 encountered
$
 
BOOO!
 

2 Comments | Posted by Chuck Sinnett to Synergy DBL, Synergy .NET, Synergy DBMS, Licensing, xfServer, xfServerPlus on 4/11/2018, 5:41 PM
Ace Olszowka
+1

While the online documentation is extremely useful to those "out in the field" it's helpful to get reminders:

I don't know what's worse--the fact that after 15 years of using tar I still can't keep the flags straight, or that after 15 years of technological advancement I'm still mucking with tar flags that were 15 years old when I started.

4/16/2018, 2:43 PM   1  
Terry Jones
I totally agree that version information is important but isn't always available.  This is the case for the the Synergex DBMS utilities.  An example is fconvert where the originally distributed program can be replaced by an updated version from a DBMS utilities update.  Fconvert doesn't report it's version number so we have to guess which version we're working with.
Isutl, however, does report it's version so there's some inconsistency among the utilties.

8/10/2018, 2:28 PM   0  
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