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authorEric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>2011-02-22 15:09:46 -0500
committerEric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>2011-02-22 15:09:46 -0500
commitaeaa002af8a9f8790e5bee21d610d37cd09b904d (patch)
tree48d69f77332e19a21ec6e0b3fe123f74ad00057e /gpsmon.xml
parent4d5f8f97dc3a5b117e56d9c8588062b3b26d6cd3 (diff)
downloadgpsd-aeaa002af8a9f8790e5bee21d610d37cd09b904d.tar.gz
Add -t option to gpsmon.
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1 files changed, 11 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/gpsmon.xml b/gpsmon.xml
index 25a654f8..73bae012 100644
--- a/gpsmon.xml
+++ b/gpsmon.xml
@@ -22,11 +22,12 @@ BSD terms apply: see the file COPYING in the distribution root for details.
<cmdsynopsis>
<command>gpsmon</command>
- <arg choice='opt'>-h </arg>
+ <arg choice='opt'>-F <replaceable>control-socket</replaceable></arg>
<arg choice='opt'>-L </arg>
<arg choice='opt'>-V </arg>
- <arg>-l <replaceable>logfile</replaceable></arg>
- <arg>-F <replaceable>control-socket</replaceable></arg>
+ <arg choice='opt'>-h </arg>
+ <arg choice='opt'>-l <replaceable>logfile</replaceable></arg>
+ <arg choice='opt'>-t <replaceable>driver-prefix</replaceable></arg>
<arg choice='opt'>
<group>
<arg choice='plain'>
@@ -109,6 +110,13 @@ immediately on device open. This may be useful is, for example,
you want to capture the startup message from a device that displays
firmware version information there.</para>
+<para>The -t option sets up a fallback type. Give it a string that
+is a distinguishing prefix of exactly one driver type name; this will
+be used for mode, speed, and rate switching if the driver selected
+by the packet type lacks those capabilities. Most useful when the
+packet type is NMEA but the device is known to have a binary mode,
+such as SiRF binary.</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.