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| author | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 2009-02-20 00:16:11 +0000 |
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| committer | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 2009-02-20 00:16:11 +0000 |
| commit | 5838b98408c3fda511447221d544ee54dc5ad4ce (patch) | |
| tree | 30c8dcdbbcc4a982e3964a6f4f9c9dbc28e60865 /gpsmon.xml | |
| parent | 163c6daafcc88ea5c46db1ce2a77c407e4840212 (diff) | |
| download | gpsd-5838b98408c3fda511447221d544ee54dc5ad4ce.tar.gz | |
Further in the direction of only reporting raw data.
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| -rw-r--r-- | gpsmon.xml | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
@@ -38,10 +38,17 @@ <para><application>gpsmon</application> is a monitor that watches packets coming from a GPS and displays them along with diagnostic -information. It supports commands trhat can be used to tweak GPS +information. It supports commands that can be used to tweak GPS settings in various ways; some are device-independent, some vary with the GPS chipset type.</para> +<para><application>gpsmon</application> differs from a navigation +client in that it mostly dumps raw data from the GPS, with only enough +data-massaging to allow checks against expected output. In +particular, this tool does not do any interpolation or modeling +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 version and exit.</para> |