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author | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 2011-02-22 15:09:46 -0500 |
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committer | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 2011-02-22 15:09:46 -0500 |
commit | aeaa002af8a9f8790e5bee21d610d37cd09b904d (patch) | |
tree | 48d69f77332e19a21ec6e0b3fe123f74ad00057e /gpsmon.xml | |
parent | 4d5f8f97dc3a5b117e56d9c8588062b3b26d6cd3 (diff) | |
download | gpsd-aeaa002af8a9f8790e5bee21d610d37cd09b904d.tar.gz |
Add -t option to gpsmon.
Diffstat (limited to 'gpsmon.xml')
-rw-r--r-- | gpsmon.xml | 14 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 3 deletions
@@ -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. |