What it does?

It allows you to read and write data on your Pocket PC as if it where on a local directory: you can create, remove, rename, read and write files in there as if they where local (this is at least true for files which doesn't have "special" attributes, like the files in the window directory).

A recently added (and experimental) feature is a proc like directory that contains information about the power status of the pocket PC and let the user browse (read only) it's registry keys as normal files and directories (this feature seems actually to work nicely on old WM2003 devices, your mileage on  WM5 may vary: as long as your device is supported by Synce, Fur *should* work as well).

Since everything happens at an operating system level, a nice side effect of this is that all programs installed on your computer will see the content of your pocket PC as normal files and directories and will be therefore able to access them without knowing about their origin.

This is a small list of things you can do with the files and directories, once FUR is correctly installed and set up:

  • Browse the files on your pocket PC with the same programs you use to copy/cut and paste the files on your desktop (like the File Browsers of GNOME or KDE or Midnight Commander).
  • Open and manipulate the media files on your device (images, video, sounds) with your favorite programs (like Mozilla, XINE, XMMS or GIMP).
  • Use your scripting or programming language of choice to work with files on the Pocket PC exactly as if they were on your hard disk, e.g. with the C fopen() function or Python file().
  • Use the command line on the data of your pocket PC (grep, diff, gawk...): bash rules!

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