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20 \- Barry Project's program to identify BlackBerry handhelds
23 [-B busname][-N devname][-h][-v]
27 scans the USB system for available BlackBerry devices and probes each
28 one it finds, then sends the identifying information to stdout in a
29 computer-friendly format.
33 Specify the USB bus to search for Blackberry devices on. This is the
34 first number displayed in the output from the lsusb command, such as 002.
35 If the busname is numeric on your system, 2 and 002 are equal. See
36 also the \-N option, which can be used together with this option
37 to precisely select the device to work with.
40 Specify the USB device name. This is the second number displayed in the
41 output from the lsusb command, such as 005. If the device name is numeric
42 on your system, 5 and 005 are equal. See also the \-B option.
45 If used with the -m option, ESN numbers will be displayed in both hex and
46 decimal formats where possible. If -m is not used, this option has
50 Also show the device's ESN / MEID / IMEI number. This requires desktop
51 database access, so is an option. It will only work on devices that have
55 Dump verbose protocol data during operation.
58 Show summary of options.
64 detects a BlackBerry device, but cannot access it for some reason, it
65 will write an error message to stderr describing the access problem,
66 and return a count of the number of such failed devices as the error code.
67 A return code of 0 means there were no BlackBerry devices found that
70 In the event of a fatal error, the message will be written to stderr,
71 with an error code of 1.
77 is part of the Barry project.
78 This manual page was written by Chris Frey.
81 http://www.netdirect.ca/software/packages/barry