These applications are the example applications shipped with the OpenOBEX library. As such they aren't intended for normal use, and are not very polished, do not expect a lot. There are, however, two useful things you can do with these tools. [1] Transferring files to a Palm Pilot via Infrared irobex_palm3 filename [2] Send and receive to Bluetooth phone or other device Here's a quick run-down of how to use obex_test to send and receive files from a Bluetooth phone (assumes you have bluez-utils and bluez-sdp installed). To send sdptool browse 11:22:33:00:00:00 (the address of your mobile phone) look for the "OBEX Push" profile and note the channel number. We'll call it . obex_test -b 11:22:33:00:00:00 > c > p local-file remote-file To receive sdptool add OPUSH sdptool browse ff:ff:ff:00:00:00 (this is your local machine) and note the channel OPUSH is on , likely to be 4 obex_test -b ff:ff:ff:00:00:00 > s now send the file from your phone -- Edd Dumbill , Thu Aug 28 16:40:48 BST 2003