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authorEric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>2004-08-15 04:10:52 +0000
committerEric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>2004-08-15 04:10:52 +0000
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Tweaks to new-feature list.
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@@ -39,8 +39,8 @@ quality from visible satellites. When querying NMEA-compliant GPSes, it
will show a diagram of satellites in their current position in the sky.
It uses the same library code as gpsd.
-gpsd is tested with DeLorme's TripMate, EarthMate and Garmin units.
-Also with the BU-303 USB GPS sold as the NaviLock, Deluo, and Hyperdata.
+gpsd is tested with DeLorme's TripMate and EarthMate; also with Garmin units;
+also with the BU-303 USB GPS sold as the NaviLock, Deluo, and Hyperdata.
Note that the PL2303 USB serial driver used with the BU-2303 seems
to have been broken sometime late in the 2.4.x series of Linux kernels
and was not fixed until 2.6.7. If in doubt, upgrade.
@@ -88,21 +88,24 @@ Actually, some bugs may be mine too now. Sorry.
Derrick J. Brashear, 2 January 2000
Or mine. I drastically rewrote this code to clean it up and extend it
+
New features include:
* Documentation (what a concept!)
* Cleaned up, simplified command-line options.
- * It understands the GLL (Geographic position - Latitude, Longitude)
+ * It now understands the GLL (Geographic position - Latitude, Longitude)
sentence from NMEA 3.0.
- * It now parses both variants of the VTG sentence correctly.
+ * It now parses both the NMEA 3.0 and pre-3.0 variants of the VTG sentence
+ correctly.
* New y and z commands support signal-status reporting and satellite
location -- it should no longer ever be necessary for clients to go to
- raw mode.
+ raw mode unless they want to monitor and log the GPS stream.
* Massive refactoring -- one main loop now calls a self-contained
driver object for each type.
- * Internals can now be directly linked as a library, libgpsd(3).
+ * The GPS-bashing code this program uses can now be directly linked as a
+ library, libgpsd(3).
* Cleaned-up error reporting, we don't use syslog when running in foreground
but send all error and status messages to the tty instead.
- * Removed -s option -- the right speed is fixed for each type, -s was
+ * Removed the -s option -- the right speed is fixed for each type, -s was
just an invitation to lossage.
* Added -n option.
* xgpsspeed is working again.