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authorEric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>2004-08-12 18:49:25 +0000
committerEric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>2004-08-12 18:49:25 +0000
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downloadgpsd-4a342e2986b1e568968c7e93562dfd315159d81d.tar.gz
Typo fixes and minor improvements.
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diff --git a/gpsd.xml b/gpsd.xml
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@@ -56,8 +56,9 @@ another slave daemon reporting to this one.</para>
<para>Optionally, gpsd may get differential-GPS corrections from a
ground station running a RTCM-S104 server; this will improve
-position-fix accuracy from roughly 10 meters to 2 meters, provided you
-are within 1000 kilometers or so of the ground station.</para>
+position-fix accuracy from roughly 10 meters to roughly 2 meters,
+provided you are within 1000 kilometers or so of the ground
+station.</para>
<para>The program accepts the following options:</para>
<variablelist remap='TP'>
@@ -95,7 +96,7 @@ seconds).</para></listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Query a differential-GPS (DGPS) server. If a suffix of the
server name begins with : it is interpreted as a port number,
-overriding the default IANA port of 2101.
+overriding the default IANA-assigned port of 2101.
For DGPS servers available for use with this option, see
<ulink url='http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/gps/dgps-ip.html'>
DGPS corrections over the Internet</ulink>.</para>
@@ -191,7 +192,7 @@ integer formatted as %d in range
<listitem>
<para>Returns Z= followed by a count not more than 12, followed by that many
pairs of satellite PRNs and signal-to-noise percentages (each
-percentage is in the range 0-99). Each number an integer formatted as
+percentage is in the range 0-99). Each number is an integer formatted as
%d followed by one space.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
@@ -215,8 +216,8 @@ the replies. Examples:</para>
</screen>
<para>If the GPS stops sending updates to gpsd, gpsd will continue
-presenting the last data it got, except that after 5 seconds the
-status (S) and mode (M) responses will bothe go to zero.</para>
+presenting the last data it got for 5 seconds 5 seconds, then begin
+sending back empty responses xinsisting only of the GPSD prefix.</para>
</refsect2>
<refsect2><title>gps</title>