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author | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 2004-09-22 14:49:04 +0000 |
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committer | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 2004-09-22 14:49:04 +0000 |
commit | 271c4c553d8f1f37aea5b6a3bba63b918de1d801 (patch) | |
tree | 8c59cc629a7f97ad12c3798a3d01fdec51f9dadc /README | |
parent | bbd53d945178959b7218919f81cd44153c8e2975 (diff) | |
download | gpsd-271c4c553d8f1f37aea5b6a3bba63b918de1d801.tar.gz |
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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. |