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authorEric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>2009-02-20 15:02:04 +0000
committerEric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>2009-02-20 15:02:04 +0000
commit1ac6060e10451ba404a7ffff60d1670569b5c090 (patch)
tree5edfb516f93dd95896d5f9205210b14be0fed251 /gpsmon.xml
parent65575cab2d574563adfe33f793d7a6b19bb8fc39 (diff)
downloadgpsd-1ac6060e10451ba404a7ffff60d1670569b5c090.tar.gz
Implement -l option analogous to gpsctl -l.
Diffstat (limited to 'gpsmon.xml')
-rw-r--r--gpsmon.xml21
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/gpsmon.xml b/gpsmon.xml
index 7263b14f..32c31e4d 100644
--- a/gpsmon.xml
+++ b/gpsmon.xml
@@ -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>