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| author | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 2006-11-29 11:57:03 +0000 |
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| committer | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 2006-11-29 11:57:03 +0000 |
| commit | a7991b8a0ae0f28d6d5bbe9b8aacb8be2f7a44ea (patch) | |
| tree | 9716fa5e0afc6785742457cb51095d4b69f3e812 /gpsfake.xml | |
| parent | 120e6128d0695a4d7c5f5ed3add9e1ea581288fb (diff) | |
| download | gpsd-a7991b8a0ae0f28d6d5bbe9b8aacb8be2f7a44ea.tar.gz | |
Document hexdumping in gpsfake.
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diff --git a/gpsfake.xml b/gpsfake.xml index 9597d29d..d68d4d23 100644 --- a/gpsfake.xml +++ b/gpsfake.xml @@ -69,9 +69,12 @@ on standard error. At termination, it reports elaped time.</para> seconds. Fractional values of seconds are legal. The default is zero (no delay).</para> -<para>The -l option makes the program dump a line or packet number just -before each sentence is fed to the daemon. If the sentence is -textual (e.g. NMEA, the text is dumped as well).</para> +<para>The -l option makes the program dump a line or packet number +just before each sentence is fed to the daemon. If the sentence is +textual (e.g. NMEA), the text is dumped as well. If not, the packet +will be dumped in hexadecimal (except for RTCM packets, which aren't +dumped at all). This option is useful for checking that gpsfake is +getting packet boundaries right.</para> <para>The -i option is for single-stepping through logfiles. It dumps the line or packet number (and the sentence if the protocol is |