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vstpg, vstpp - VisioBraille file transferring
vstpg [-ifbnd] [-s socketport] [-k keyname] [-o configname] file ...
vstpg (resp. vstpp) gets (resp. puts) files from (resp. onto) a VisioBraille terminal.
For communicating with the terminal, you must launch brltty with the BrlNet driver, and telling BrlNet to use the VisioBraille driver.
Before putting on the terminal, file names are truncated to 8 characters without any extension.
Before getting from terminal, leading path and trailing extensions are removed, but put back for local filename.
vstpg and vstpp read a configuration file $HOME/.vstprc which contains keywords or equalities, one per line (what follows a # is ignored).
You can ask them to also read any other file thanks to the -o option.
Here are keywords:
1 | syntax error on command line |
2 | connection with BrlNet error |
3 | Unix file error |
4 | Protocol error |
16 | interrupted by user |
Beware of special chars: * and . are often expanded by your shell, hence vstpp * will probably do what you want, putting every file existing in the current directory onto the terminal, but vstpg * may not do what you want: it will only get every file which already exist in the current directory, skipping those you just created on your terminal ! If you want to get every file which exist in the terminal, you should use vstpg '*' or something similar (please read your shell manual).
The same warning applies to other special chars, such as $, ~, &,... which should be protected by surrounding arguments by quotes (') or by using single backslashes (\) just before them (please read your shell manual).
The one we could find has been corrected :)
Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> and Sebastien Hinderer <sebastien.hinderer@ens-lyon.fr>
2002-07-15 | BrlAPI |