And how do we know its synced ? i only get a blinking dot...
Blockchain is not so large yet, so wait a couple of minutes.
is there a command to see this ?
when the daemon is running, open another command prompt.
browse to the directory with elacoind that's already running, and type "elacoind help" .
This will give you the list of console commands including "getinfo".
you don't want to type "elacoind -help" as that will show you the help for executing the daemon, which you already did in another cmd prompt.