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authorEric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>2009-09-06 13:23:05 +0000
committerEric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>2009-09-06 13:23:05 +0000
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Register some developer convenience scripts (not stuff to be shipped).
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@@ -7,6 +7,15 @@ the outline headers. Ctl-C Ctl-a will unfold them again.
AIS packet decoder in Python. Useful as a check on the C code.
+** aidvmtable
+
+Generate an asciidoc table of the six-bit encoding used in AIVDM packets.
+
+** editcomment
+
+Edit the change comment at the revision level specified as $1.
+Only works if you have developer ssh access to the repo.
+
** fakecompare
Compare the results from running gpsfake on a logfile between this
@@ -26,13 +35,23 @@ Gets the current leap-second correction forom IERS and/or the USNO.
** logextract
Extract pure NMEA from an emailed gpsd error log. The output can be fed
-to gpsfake. (This one goes in the tarball.)
+to gpsfake.
+
+** maskaudit
+
+# Report on which status masks are used in the daemon vs. the client-side
+# library.
** regress-builder
This script runs an exhaustive test on combinations of compilation options,
looking for ones that break the build.
+** regressdiff
+
+Walk through a pair of textfiles looking for where they begin to differ.
+May be useful for comparing logs when regression tests break.
+
** striplog
Strip leading comment lines from NMEA sentence logs. gpsfake can do