IEEE 1394 commander
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Introduction
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This program provides access to the IEEE 1394 (FireWire) bus
by use of simple commands on the console.
It supports the following features:
 - read
 - write
 - lock
 - force bus reset (long or short)
 - send phy packets
 - bus reset notification

For asynchronous transactions it reports the exact acknowledge and
response codes.

Name change
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The name of this utility used to be 1394commander. Starting with
version 0.2 it has been changed to firecontrol because the project was
moved to sourceforge.net and sourceforge does not support project names
starting with a number.

Requirements
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This software requires access to the IEEE 1394 adapter via libraw1394
(version 0.10.0 or higher).

The library readline is recommended, because it makes the use of
the program more convenient (e. g. it provides a command history).
But if it is not available, the tool will compile and work as well.

How to build
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Type "./configure" and then "make" on the console!
If you want to install the program, become root and type "make install"!

How to use
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Start the program with the command "firecontrol".

If you have more than one IEEE 1394 adapter and you
want to use another than the first one, then type
"firecontrol n", where n is the number of the
adapter to use.

At the prompt of the command you can type "help"
the get a short description of the available commands.


January 10th, 2007     Manfred Weihs <mweihs@users.sourceforge.net>
