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author | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 2009-02-20 15:02:04 +0000 |
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committer | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 2009-02-20 15:02:04 +0000 |
commit | 1ac6060e10451ba404a7ffff60d1670569b5c090 (patch) | |
tree | 5edfb516f93dd95896d5f9205210b14be0fed251 /gpsmon.xml | |
parent | 65575cab2d574563adfe33f793d7a6b19bb8fc39 (diff) | |
download | gpsd-1ac6060e10451ba404a7ffff60d1670569b5c090.tar.gz |
Implement -l option analogous to gpsctl -l.
Diffstat (limited to 'gpsmon.xml')
-rw-r--r-- | gpsmon.xml | 21 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 6 deletions
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ <cmdsynopsis> <command>gpsmon</command> <arg choice='opt'>-h </arg> - <arg choice='opt'>-v </arg> + <arg choice='opt'>-V </arg> <arg>-F <replaceable>control-socket</replaceable></arg> <arg choice='opt'> <group> @@ -31,6 +31,8 @@ <arg choice='plain'><replaceable>device</replaceable></arg> </group> </arg> + <arg choice='opt'>-l </arg> + <arg choice='opt'>-D <replaceable>debuglevel</replaceable></arg> </cmdsynopsis> </refsynopsisdiv> @@ -50,7 +52,7 @@ to derive climb/sink or error estimates. Nor does it discard altitude when fix quality is too low.</para> <para><application>gpsmon</application> accepts an -h option that -displays a usage message, or a -v option to dump the package +displays a usage message, or a -V option to dump the package version and exit.</para> <para>This program may be run in either of two modes, as a client for @@ -75,6 +77,12 @@ your local filesystem.</para> probably only useful to developers of the GPSD code. Consult the packet-getter source code for relevant values.</para> +<para>The -l option lists a table showing which GPS device tyupes +<application>gpsmon</application> has built-in support for, and which +generic commands can be applied to which GPS types, and then +exits. Note that this does not list type-specific commands associated +with individual GPS types.</para> + <para>After startup, the top part of the screen reports the contents of several especially interesting packet types. The bottom half of the screen is a scrolling hex dump of all packets the GPS is issuing. @@ -161,10 +169,11 @@ per second, for example "s9600".</para> <term>t</term> <listitem> <para>Force a switch of monitoring type. Follow it with a string that -is unique to the name of a gpsd driver with monitor support; -<application>gpsmon</application> will switch to using that driver -and display code. Will show an error message if there is no matching -gpsd driver, or multiple matches, or the unique match has no display +is unique to the name of a gpsd driver with +<application>gpsmon</application> support; +<application>gpsmon</application> will switch to using that driver and +display code. Will show an error message if there is no matching gpsd +driver, or multiple matches, or the unique match has no display support in <application>gpsmon</application>.</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> |