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authorEric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>2004-08-21 22:00:28 +0000
committerEric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>2004-08-21 22:00:28 +0000
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The gps client now goes through the daemon. Relayerr functionality
has been removed from the low-level interface, since you can get the same effect by going through the high-level interface with a specified nodefault host/port.
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@@ -72,9 +72,6 @@ for the Earthmate.
Curt Mills <BowHunter@mail.com> (WE7U) furthered the dgps support,
writing the portion for other GPS receivers.
-Tom Mayo <tmayo1@rochester.rr.com> N1MU contributed the G/g command,
-which returns a 6 digit Maidenhead grid square.
-
Be advised: any bugs in this code are mine, and mine only ;-)
Thanks for Russ Nelson for providing a home for gpsd!
@@ -87,8 +84,7 @@ 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
-
+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.
@@ -96,9 +92,9 @@ New features include:
sentence from NMEA 3.0.
* 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 unless they want to monitor and log the GPS stream.
+ * 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.
* 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.
@@ -107,7 +103,7 @@ New features include:
* 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).
+ library, libgps(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 the -s option -- the right speed is fixed for each type, -s was