Please help me to understand commands for the Gnome-VFS-Obexftp program.

[pew_from_hobart]

Dear UBUNTU People,

This email's subject says it all:
Please help me to understand commands for the Gnome-VFS-Obexftp program

This is a bit complicated so I'll try to get my facts correct. *SMILE*

I will happily supply more technical details as requested. (As long as I
myself can work out what you need to know)

( I'm still only a newbie at Linux UBUNTU ... however, I love it. I think
that UBUNTU is superior to M$ Windows in so many ways!!! )

I'm trying to install software which will let me use a small device called a
"USB Bluetooth Dongle" (which I currently have plugged into one of my
computer's USB ports) communicate with my new SAGEM my411x mobile phone.

My (limited) understanding is that I should be able to use software on my pc
to communicate with my SAGEM mobile phone and exchange phone numbers,
pictures, video, and music etc. This sounds like a good thing to do.

Some time ago I posted a message about me wanting to do this and someone
recommended the "gnome-vfs-obexftp" program.

To cut a long story short... I think that I have correctly install the
software, however *I don't know how to use it*.

This is a website about the "gnome-vfs-obexftp" program:

http://blogs.gnome.org/jamesh/2007/01/03/gnome-vfs-obexftp-01-released/

after downloading the files and having problems understanding what to do, I
decided to email both of the 2 authors of the program

Mikael Hallendal <micke at imendio.com>
Richard Hult <richard at imendio.com>

Mikael kindly replied to my email with this message:

Mikael said the following in an email to me>

I'm sorry but I have to admit that I can't remember the steps needed
to get that installed (or where to put the GnomeVFS plugins).

If you are on Ubuntu Linux you should be able to simply install it with

'apt-get install gnome-vfs-obexftp'

Sorry that I can't be of more help but I have not touched that code in
two-three years.

<end quote

I decided to use a terminal (shell) and I entered the following commands:

sudo -i
(prompted for password)
apt-get install gnome-vfs-obexftp

This then proceeded to install the gnome-vfs-obexftp 0.2 program and some
other files too.

Basically, what I'm trying to say is:

I think the program installed okay... but I don't know how to test it or the
commands to use to operate the software.

Yours Faithfully and Perplexed,
PEW  ;-)))

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