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6 vstpg, vstpp - VisioBraille file transferring
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9 vstpg [-ifbnd] [-s socketport] [-k keyname] [-o configname] file ...
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12 vstpg (resp. vstpp) gets (resp. puts) files from (resp. onto) a Visio‐
13 Braille terminal.
14 For communicating with the terminal, you must launch brltty with the
16 BrlNet driver, and telling BrlNet to use the VisioBraille driver.
17 Before putting on the terminal, file names are truncated to 8 charac‐
19 ters without any extension.
20 Before getting from terminal, leading path and trailing extensions are
22 removed, but put back for local filename.
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26 -i ask for confirmation of transfer, for each file (on the termi‐
27 nal)
28 -f don't ask for such a confirmation (default)
30 -b if they exists, recursively rename the old files with an added
32 .x suffix, just like logrotate does
33 -n do not keep such backup file (default)
35 -s socketport
37 use socketport as the port number instead of default for con‐
38 necting to BrlNet
39 -k filename
41 use filename as key path instead of default for reading BrlNet's
42 authentication key
43 -d use current directory rather than the download directory (see
45 vbs_dir below)
46 -o filename
48 also read filename as config file
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52 vstpg and vstpp read a configuration file $HOME/.vstprc which contains
53 keywords or equalities, one per line (what follows a # is ignored).
54 You can ask them to also read any other file thanks to the -o option.
56 Here are keywords:
58 backup make -b option the default
61 nobackup
64 make -f option the default
65 and equalities:
68 keyname = filename
71 use this file instead of default, to find BrlNet's authentica‐
72 tion key
73 socketport = port
76 use this port number, instead of default, to connect to BrlNet
77 vbs_ext = .ext
80 use .ext as an extension for downloaded files (.vis by default)
81 this is overriden on command line if an extension is provided in
82 the file name
83 vbs_dir = path
86 use path instead of current directory for putting files, except
87 when using the -d option, or if the filename begins with '.'
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91 1 syntax error on command line
92 2 connection with BrlNet error
93 3 Unix file error
94 4 Protocol error
95 16 interrupted by user
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99 Beware of special chars: * and . are often expanded by your shell,
100 hence vstpp * will probably do what you want, putting every file exist‐
101 ing in the current directory onto the terminal, but vstpg * may not do
102 what you want: it will only get every file which already exist in the
103 current directory, skipping those you just created on your terminal !
104 If you want to get every file which exist in the terminal, you should
105 use vstpg '*' or something similar (please read your shell manual).
106 The same warning applies to other special chars, such as $, ~, &,...
108 which should be protected by surrounding arguments by quotes (') or by
109 using single backslashes (\) just before them (please read your shell
110 manual).
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114 The one we could find has been corrected :)
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118 Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> and Sébastien Hinderer
119 <sebastien.hinderer@ens-lyon.fr>
120BrlNet Jul 15, 2002 VSTP(1)