Ubuntu Manpage: usbprog - Programmer for the USBprog hardware

NAME

       usbprog - Programmer for the USBprog hardware

SYNOPSIS

       usbprog [options] [commands]

DESCRIPTION

       USBprog has two modes: An interactive mode and a batch mode. Both mode use exactly the
       same commands. As every command takes a fixed number of arguments, no separator is
       necessary between commands -- just specify as much commands as you would like to execute.

       The help command gives a list of all commands, ? command can be used to get help for a
       specific command. Example:

         (usbprog) help
         (usbprog) ? upload

OPTIONS

       Following options can be specified, both for the interactive and the batch mode:

       -h | --help
              Prints a short help.

       -v | --version
              Prints the version number to standard output.

       -d | --datadir datadir
              Uses datadir instead of ~/.usbprog.

       -o | --offline
              Don't try to connect to the internet. Use the cached firmware and index file(s)
              only.

       -D | --debug
              Enable debugging output.

COMMANDS

This section describes all commands. As mentioned above, the syntax is the same for
interactive and batch usage.

help This just prints an overview about every command, i.e. the command name and an one-
sentence description.

helpcmd | ? command
Print a detailed description for command.

exit | quit
Quit the program. On Unix, you can also send an EOF by pressing Ctrl-d on your
terminal.

copying | license
Prints a short license (GPL) text and the version number of the program.

list | firmwares
Prints a list of available firmwares. A [*] shows that the firmware is available in
the offline cache.

download firmware
Downloads the specified firmware. Use the same string as you retrieved from the
firmwares command described above. This command doesn't work in offline mode.

info firmware
Shows some basic information about firmware like what it does, the latest version
number, the author and the USB ID which the USBprog device has after this firmware
has been uploaded. See also the pins command.

pins firmware
This shows the PIN assignment of firmware and the meaning of the LED and jumpers.
See also the info command for basic information about the firmware.

cache clean | delete
clean deletes all old firmware versions from the firmware cache, i.e. if the latest
version of a firmware is 5, then it deletes the versions 0 to 4 if they are still
on disk. The delete command deletes the whole firmware cache. Only the index and
history file are in the cache directory after executing this command.

devices
Shows a list of connected USB devices related to USBprog. The currently used update
device an be set with device and is also marked in the output.

device number | name
Sets the update device for the upload command. You have to use the integer number
or the device name you retrieved from the devices command.

upload firmware | file
Uploads a new firmware. The firmware identifier can be found with the list command.
Alternatively, you can also specify a file name on the disk. The extension doesn't
matter.

FILES

       ~/.usbprog/version.xml
              Index file, downloaded from http://www.ixbat.de/usbprog/versions.xml.

       ~/.usbprog/history
              The saved readline(1) history.

       ~/.usbprog/*
              The rest in that directory are firmware files. The naming scheme is name.version.

AUTHOR

       The USBprog program and documentation has been written by Bernhard Walle
       <bernhard@bwalle.de>.