#! /usr/local/bin/python -O
"""
-ObexFTP VFS for Midnight Commander. Manipulate a cell phone's filesystem using obexftp.
+ObexFTP Virtual FileSystem for Midnight Commander.
Author: Oleg BroytMann <phd@phd.pp.ru>.
Copyright (C) 2004 PhiloSoft Design.
License: GPL.
+Manipulate a cell phone's filesystem calling obexftp binary. This is a complete
+user-mode solution, no kernel modules required (unlike SieFS or such). The
+script implements all commands of Midnight VFS, except for undocumented "run";
+but there are no runnable files in the cell phone. The script is written in
+Python because I love Python, the best of all languages, and I need to parse
+XML directory listings from obexftp.
+
The script requires Midnight Commander 3.1+ (http://www.ibiblio.org/mc/),
-Python 2.2+ (http://www.python.org/), OpenOBEX 1.0.1+ (http://openobex.sourceforge.net/)
+Python 2.2+ (http://www.python.org/),
+OpenOBEX 1.0.1+ (http://openobex.sourceforge.net/)
and ObexFTP 0.10.4+ (http://triq.net/obexftp).
-Edit the full path to the obexftp binary (see below). Put the file to the
-/usr/[local/]lib/mc/extfs, and add a line "obexftp" to the
-/usr/[local/]lib/mc/extfs/extfs.ini. Then create somewhere a transport file.
+Edit the script, and correct the shebang path, if your python is not in the
+/usr/local. Edit the full path to the obexftp binary (see below). Put the file
+in the /usr/[local/]lib/mc/extfs, and add a line "obexftp" to the
+/usr/[local/]lib/mc/extfs/extfs.ini.
-The transport file can have any name, and is expected to be a text file with at
-least one line defining the transport to your device. Other lines in the file
-are ignored.
+Create somewhere a transport file. The transport file can have any name, and is
+expected to be a text file with at least one line defining the transport to
+your device. Other lines in the file are ignored.
First word in the line is a transport name - Bluetooth, IrDA or TTY. The name
is case-insensitive.
the channel for your device by using commands like "hcitool scan" and "sdptool
browse".
-For the TTY put a device name: "tty /dev/rfcomm0".
+For the IrDA: just put "IrDA" in the file.
-The content with the IrDA just put "IrDA" in the file.
+For the TTY put a device name: "tty /dev/rfcomm0".
Now run this "cd" command in the Midnight Commander (in the "bindings" files
-the command is "%cd"): cd description#obexftp. The VFS script uses obexftp to
-connect to the device and list files and directories. Plese be warned that
-opening the VFS for the first time is VERY slow, because the script needs to
-scan the entire cell phone's filesystem. And there must be a timeout between
-connections, which doesn't make the scanning process faster. Midnight Commander
-caches the result, so you can browse directories quickly.
+the command is "%cd"): cd description#obexftp, where "description" is the name
+of your file. The VFS script uses obexftp to connect to the device and list
+files and directories. Please be warned that opening the VFS for the first time
+is VERY slow, because the script needs to scan the entire cell phone's
+filesystem. And there must be timeouts between connections, which don't make
+the scanning faster. Midnight Commander caches the result, so you can browse
+directories quickly.
"""
-__version__ = "0.5.1"
-__revision__ = "$Id: obexftp,v 1.7 2004/06/13 22:04:56 phd Exp $"
-__date__ = "$Date: 2004/06/13 22:04:56 $"[7:-2]
+__version__ = "1.0.0"
+__revision__ = "$Id: obexftp,v 1.9 2004/06/19 17:28:44 phd Exp $"
+__date__ = "$Date: 2004/06/19 17:28:44 $"[7:-2]
__author__ = "Oleg Broytmann <phd@phd.pp.ru>"
__copyright__ = "Copyright (C) 2004 PhiloSoft Design"
if len(sys.argv) < 2:
error("""\
-It is not a program - it is a VFS for Midnight Commander.
-Put it in /usr/lib/mc/extfs. For more information read the source!""")
+ObexFTP Virtual FileSystem for Midnight Commander version %s
+Author: %s
+%s
+Put it in /usr/lib/mc/extfs. For more information read the source!""" % (
+ __version__, __author__, __copyright__
+))
def setup_transport():
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