Interfaces typically run as detached or background processes until stopped by a manual shutdown or a system shutdown. There are a few parameters that cause an interface to output some information and then shutdown immediately. An example of one of these parameters is the /help parameter. If a UniInt based interface is executed with the
/helpparameter, the interface will start, notice the parameter /help request, output the help informational messages and then shut down. There is a short list of these parameters in a separate table labeled Informational Parameters because all of the parameters in this list will cause a UniInt based interface to start, output some information and then shut down. These command-line parameters must appear on the command-line by themselves.
On Windows, /? is the same as the /help parameter.
On all other platforms /? is the same as /h.
/h
Optional
Print a summary of command-line options supported by UniInt. The interface-specific command-line options will also be printed if this is supported by the interface.
/help
Optional, Windows Only
In addition to printing the summary of command-line options from the /h parameter, print a summary of command-line options for installing, removing, and starting a Windows service.
/v
Optional
Print the version of the interface, the PI API installed on the interface computer and the version of UniInt the interface was built against.