IRPSION5(8)

📦 version 0.9.18, in fedora 43, fedora 44

💖 IRPSION5 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the irpsion5 page — it's section 8 of the manual (that's the sysadmin-y one, the root-privileges one, you know the vibe) and it's literally all about getting your Linux box to talk IrDA to a Psion V PDA. yes, that Psion. the little brick from the olden days. she's iconic, she's giving retro tech main character energy, and she speaks infrared. slay.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

irpsion5 [ -s file ] [ -r ] [ -b ] [ -v ] [ -q ] [ -S ms ] [ -D n ]

that's the whole shape of it, bestie — a bunch of optional little flags, no required args, no drama. 🎀

🌸 OPTIONS 🌸

  • -s file — send file to the Psion. you're the one beaming the goods over. 💌
  • -r — receive a file from the Psion. now she's sending to you. ✨
  • -b — receive multiple files, aka batch mode. not just one lil guy — the whole squad. 🫶
  • -v — verbose mode, progress indication. she tells you what's happening, step by step. lowkey helpful. 💅
  • -q — quiet mode, no progress indication. the opposite vibe. silence. peace. no commentary. 🤫
  • -S ms — set discovery slot timeout. standard is 80ms, default is 120ms. numbers stay exactly as written, no cap. ⏱️
  • -D n — debug level. turn the dial up to n and watch the logs go feral. 🔥

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

N.N.

irpsion5 must be run as root or installed setuid root, because it requires root privileges. that's not a suggestion bestie, that's the rules. no root, no infrared romance. 😭

fr fr — if you're not root and it's not setuid root, this is not going to work for you. periodt.

🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

N.N.

(yes, that's literally what the page says. we're keeping it. not every chapter has a plot twist. 🙈)

💀 DIAGNOSTICS 💀

  • Error: unknown switch %s
  • Call without args for usage: %s

so if you throw a flag at her that she doesn't know, she'll tell you it's an unknown switch. and if you just call her with no args at all, she'll point you at the usage. she's communicative like that. 🫶

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

and the holy trinity of links, verbatim:

(iykyk — these are the ancient scrolls. 💜)

🧚 AUTHOR 🧚

This manual page is written by Werner Heuser <wehe@tuxmobil.org>. It is based on the READMEs from irda-utils by the Linux/IrDA Project and the Linux/IrDA-Tutorial.

shoutout to Werner. king behavior. 👑

Copyright (c) 2001 Werner Heuser

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL), Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts and no Back-Cover Texts.

okay that's the whole page, bestie. no notes, every flag intact, every detail preserved, and she ate. 💅✨

this lil number dropped on 03 July 2006, from the IRPSION5(8) source — and yeah, we're still obsessed with her. bye bestie, go beam something over infrared. 🦋💖

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