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authorEric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>2004-09-22 14:49:04 +0000
committerEric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>2004-09-22 14:49:04 +0000
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@@ -32,6 +32,8 @@ There is a project site for gpsd at <http://www.berlios/gpsd/>.
Look there for updates, news, and project mailing lists. See that
website for a list of GPS units known to be compatible.
+See the file INSTALL for installation instructions.
+
CREDITS
=======
@@ -57,13 +59,13 @@ Eric S. Raymond drastically rewrote this code to clean it up and extend it.
His new features include:
* Documentation (what a concept!)
* Cleaned up, simplified command-line options.
- * It now understands the GLL (Geographic position - Latitude, Longitude)
+ * Now understands the GLL (Geographic position - Latitude, Longitude)
sentence from NMEA 3.0.
- * It now parses both the NMEA 3.0 and pre-3.0 variants of the VTG sentence
+ * Now parses both the NMEA 3.01 and pre-3.01 variants of the VTG sentence
correctly.
* New y command supports satellite location -- it should no longer ever be
necessary for clients to go to raw mode unless they want to monitor and
- log the GPS stream.
+ log the NMEA stream itself.
* New 'w' command toggles 'watcher' mode. In watcher mode gpsd ships
a gpsd-style response for each incoming sentence as if the client
had just sent all commands that asked for data contained in the sentence.
@@ -71,15 +73,15 @@ His new features include:
is on-line.
* Massive refactoring -- one main loop now calls a self-contained
driver object for each type.
- * The GPS-bashing code this program uses can now be directly linked as a
- library, libgpsd(3).
+ * The GPS-bashing code the daemon uses can now be directly linked as a
+ library, libgpsd(3).
+ * C and Python libraries are available to encapsulate the client side of
+ querying gpsd.
* Cleaned-up error reporting, we don't use syslog when running in foreground
but send all error and status messages to the tty instead.
* Added -n option to do batch monitoring of GPSes.
* xgpsspeed is working again. gps has been seriously reworked and improved.
* RPMs which include installation of gpsd to start up at boot time
are available.
- * C and Python libraries are available to encapsulate the client side of
- querying gpsd.
* New gpsprobe program probes the capabilities of GPSes and generates
error scrattergrams from fixes.