Starting Qlink from the Command Line

[jharrington21]

I am trying to start Qlink from a command line and would like to pass user id and password as parameters so I do not have to type the password everytime.

Does anyone know the parameters to pass on the command line?

-My boss is the lazy one.

Thanks,
James

[Larry Marchman]

The password is filled in [********** form] when I start QLink from command line. If you're looking for a way to not have the Login Dialog appear at all, the following will not be useful. I don't know of a way to suppress the login dialog altogether.

Perhaps you don't have the Password keyword in the file that controls password pre-filling in the Login dialog.

In your QLink folder, locate and open with Notepad (Notepad only, no other Editor) the file continuumclient.ini .
If there is no Password keyword at the third line, add it like so....

AutoUpdateServerList=true
User=YourUserID
Password=
Server=209.202.236.29:23100 73 09/07/2,,,,,,,

Note:
Password= is case sensitive. Insure no spaces after Password= .
Do Not type your Password after Password=.
This will be done by QLink in an encrypted form.

Save updated continuumclient.ini
Start QLink...the password field will still be blank at this time.
Type in your password into the Login Dialog.
Connect...the encrypting will happen now into the continuumclient file..
Exit QLink
Start QLink
The password should now be pre-filled in the Login Dialog.

Actually, it would be better if you started QLink from QFAI(link) . It will provide a way to control server selection, which can be handy under certain server bad hair day circumstances, or allow one to consistently connect with a specific server that's been consistently OK.

LAM