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Command line arguments

thedjnK edited this page Apr 30, 2017 · 3 revisions

Command line arguments can be provided to UwTerminalX to specify various configuration options, please note that for Mac, Linux and Windows the command line arguments are specified in the same mannor, without hypens, like so:

UwTerminalX argument1 argument2 argument3=with_parameter argument4

Please also note that information about these command line parameters can be found from the about screen of UwTerminalX.

ACCEPT

Bypass About screen on startup

COM=n

Windows: COM[1..255] specifies a comport number

GNU/Linux: /dev/tty[device] specifies a TTY device

Mac: /dev/[device] specifies a TTY device

BAUD=n

[1200..921600] Could be limited to 115200 depending on PC hardware (limited to 230400 on Mac)

STOP=n

[1..2]

DATA=n

[7..8]

PAR=n

[0=None; 1=Odd; 2=Even]

FLOW=n

[0=None; 1=Cts/Rts; 2=Xon/Xoff]

ENDCHR=n

[line termination character :: 0=CR, 1=LF, 2=CRLF, 3=LFCR]

NOCONNECT

Do not connect to device on startup even if ACCEPT is provided

LOCALECHO=n

[0=Disabled; 1=Enabled]

LINEMODE=n

[0=Disabled; 1=Enabled]

LOG

Write screen activity to new file '<appname>.log' (Cannot be used with LOG+, LOG+ will take priority)

LOG+

Append screen activity to file '<appname>.log' (Cannot be used with LOG, LOG+ will take priority)

LOG=filename

File to write the log data to this file (supply extension)

SHOWCRLF

When displaying a TX or RX text on screen, show \t,\r,\n as well