Copyright (C) 2004 PhiloSoft Design.
License: GPL.
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.
+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"; anyway 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/),
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/)
-and ObexFTP 0.10.4+ (http://triq.net/obexftp).
+OpenOBEX 1.0.1+ (http://openobex.sourceforge.net/) and
+ObexFTP 0.10.4+ (http://triq.net/obexftp).
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.
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.
-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
+Create somewhere a transport file. The transport file may 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, TTY or IrDA. The name
is case-insensitive.
For the Bluetooth transport put there a line "Bluetooth CP:AD:RE:SS channel",
your device. Other lines in the file are ignored.
First word in the line is a transport name - Bluetooth, TTY or IrDA. The name
is case-insensitive.
For the Bluetooth transport put there a line "Bluetooth CP:AD:RE:SS channel",
-where CP:AD:RE:SS is the hardware address of the device you want to connect to,
-and channel is the OBEX File Transfer channel; you can discover the address and
-the channel for your device by using commands like "hcitool scan" and "sdptool
-browse".
+where CP:AD:RE:SS is the hardware address of the device you want to connect
+to, and "channel" is the OBEX File Transfer channel; you can discover the
+address and the channel for your device by using commands like "hcitool scan"
+and "sdptool browse".
For the TTY put the device name: "tty /dev/ttyUSB0".
For the IrDA: just put "IrDA" in the file.
For the TTY put the device name: "tty /dev/ttyUSB0".
For the IrDA: just put "IrDA" in the file.
-Now run this "cd" command in the Midnight Commander (in the "bindings" files
-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
+Now run this "cd" command in the Midnight Commander (in the "bindings" file
+the command is "%cd"): cd transport#obexftp, where "transport" is the name of
+your transport file. The 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
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.
+the scanning faster. Midnight Commander caches the result so you can browse
+and manipulate files and directories quickly.
+
+Please note that manipulating the filesystem using your phone's internal
+filemanager in parallel with the VFS leads to disagreement between the VFS
+cache and the phone. It is not very dangerous but inconvenient. There is no
+way to clear the VFS cache in Midnight Commander and reread the filesystem.
+You have to exit the VFS (cd /, for example) and return back using cd
+transport#obexftp command. Sometimes even this doesn't help - Midnight
+Commander shows the same cached VFS image. Exit Midnight Commander and
+restart it.
-__version__ = "1.0.1"
-__revision__ = "$Id: obexftp,v 1.12 2004/06/23 16:05:34 phd Exp $"
-__date__ = "$Date: 2004/06/23 16:05:34 $"[7:-2]
+__version__ = "1.0.2"
+__revision__ = "$Id: obexftp,v 1.13 2004/07/27 15:39:54 phd Exp $"
+__date__ = "$Date: 2004/07/27 15:39:54 $"[7:-2]
__author__ = "Oleg Broytmann <phd@phd.pp.ru>"
__copyright__ = "Copyright (C) 2004 PhiloSoft Design"
__author__ = "Oleg Broytmann <phd@phd.pp.ru>"
__copyright__ = "Copyright (C) 2004 PhiloSoft Design"
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