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| author | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 2009-08-27 00:16:25 +0000 |
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| committer | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 2009-08-27 00:16:25 +0000 |
| commit | bb81b1ad59f88508c5a2976b3f2d357bb9c97aad (patch) | |
| tree | 97040431bfa636f6dcb54a19fea22665baad7917 /gpsmon.xml | |
| parent | b9cc68ba066757a71565fd29dd0e886a17bf2e21 (diff) | |
| download | gpsd-bb81b1ad59f88508c5a2976b3f2d357bb9c97aad.tar.gz | |
Add a salutary warning.
Diffstat (limited to 'gpsmon.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | gpsmon.xml | 19 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 7 deletions
@@ -44,6 +44,13 @@ 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>This tool used to be called 'sirfmon', and worked only on SiRF +devices (and the command set has changed to resemble the command +switches of <application>gpsctl</application>). It now has support for a range +of NMEA devices as well; support for other (binary-protocol) device +types is planned. It will behave sanely, just dumping packets, when +connected to a GPS type it knows nothing about.</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 @@ -310,6 +317,11 @@ MID 19, including the Static Navigation bit toggled by the 'M' command.</para> </refsect1> <refsect1 id='bugs'><title>BUGS AND LIMITATIONS</title> +<para>If you run <application>gpsmon</application> in client mode, +and kill the daemon while <application>gpsmon</application> is +still running, <application>gpsmon</application> will hang. +Don't do that...</para> + <!-- Debug window dumps of control message sends to the GPS (preceded by '>>>') are only supported for the following drivers: NMEA, SiRF, @@ -318,13 +330,6 @@ work for Zodiacs and not always work for Garmins in binary mode. --> -<para>This tool used to be called 'sirfmon', and worked only on SiRF -devices (and the command set has changed to resemble the command -switches of <application>gpsctl</application>). It now has support for a range -of NMEA devices as well; support for other (binary-protocol) device -types is planned. It will behave sanely, just dumping packets, when -connected to a GPS type it knows nothing about.</para> - </refsect1> <refsect1 id='see_also'><title>SEE ALSO</title> <para> |