Administrator Commands

echoid - Get a Computer’s Locking Code

An application or license server may be restricted to operate on certain computers. These restrictions are included in the license codes when they are created.

Before your vendor creates a license code with any computer restrictions, you must get the locking code for your computer with the echoid program. Your vendor will tell you which computers you must run echoid on. The echoid utility outputs either one or two hexadecimal locking codes depending upon how your vendor has configured it. You will send all locking information to your vendor. Your vendor will use this information, which is specific to your computers, to generate new license codes.

Echoid sends the output to a console window . You can generate the locking code on a Windows computer by saying:

echoid >lock.txt

sends the locking code data to a text file named lock.txt in the directory from which you used echoid.

Echoid can be run on Windows 95/98/ME, Windows NT/2000/2003/XP and UNIX. It can be executed from the operating system command prompt by an administrative or application user on a stand-alone, client, or license server computer.

Tip: The file echoid.dat must be in the same directory as the echoid program file.

Wechoid is the windows interface of echoid. We would recommend you to use wechoid as it is more simple and easy to use.