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GPSMAN(1) User Commands GPSMAN(1)

NAME

gpsman - a (graphical) manager of GPS data

SYNOPSIS

gpsman [-dev [usb=]DEVICE]
gpsman [OPTIONS] COMMAND [COMMAND_ARGS]

DESCRIPTION

gpsman GPS Manager (GPSMan) is a graphical manager of GPS data that makes possible the preparation, inspection and edition of GPS data in a friendly environment. GPSMan supports communication and real-time logging with Garmin, Lowrance and Magellan receivers and accepts real-time logging information in NMEA 0183 from any GPS receiver.

To comunicate with the GPS port the user must have been granted read/write permissions for the corresponding device.

For use in graphical mode GPSMan is normally invoked in the first form above, where the usb= prefix to the device path enforces the use of the Garmin USB protocol. The use in this mode is not further described here, a full description being given in the User Manual available along with the GPSMan distribution.

GPSMan can also be used in command line mode (with no graphical interface except with the readstart travel commands), in which case it must be invoked in the second form above. The sections below address this mode.

EXIT STATUS

In non-graphical mode GPSMan exits with either a 0 if COMMAND was successfully executed, or a 1 if not. Some commands will write information to the standard output channel. Error messages can possibly be written to the standard error channel, but most of the errors will not be explained. In case of doubt the graphical mode should be used to see if there are problems with files or the receiver.

OPTIONS

Apart from the -dev option all other options are only for use in non-graphical mode.

under the name logfile in the GPSMan user directory.
changes the brand of the receiver (NOTE: at present will only work with Garmin); this option can be useful to override the options in the preferences file; cannot be used with the readput command, nor with the -prefs option, and cannot occur after the -prot option.
gives the path for an alternative preferences file (read after the user preferences file); cannot be used with the -rec option.
selects the protocol to be used for connecting to the receiver; cannot occur before the -rec option; the show protocols command can be used to find out which protocols are available.

Options not related with COMMAND will be silently ignored.

NAME=VALUE ARGUMENTS

Some commands accept parameters in the form NAME=VALUE. The term PARAM when used here referring to arguments of a command has always this meaning. Care should be taken if the value part is a string with spaces (or other characters with special meaning for the shell or system command interpreter) in which case quotes or some other form of quoting should be used.

GPSMAN COMMAND SUMMARY

There is no room in a manual page to describe in detail the available commands. The following list gives a synopsis for all of them and the User Manual should be consulted for more information.

exits with 0 if a connection check with the receiver succeeds.

AUTHORS

This manual page was written by Miguel Filgueiras <migfilg_AT_t-online.de> using a previous version by Rogerio Reis <rvr_AT_debian.org>.

GPSMan: developed and maintained by Miguel Filgueiras, with contributions by Brian Baulch, Rogerio Reis, Andreas Lange, Alessandro Palmas, Niki Hammler, Martin Ostermann, Valere Robin, David Wolfskill, Rob Buitenhuis, Frank Kujawski, Tri Agus Prayitno, Matt Martin, Stefan Heinen, Heiko Thede, Sabine Broda, Alberto Morales, Martin Buck, David Kaplan, Jean H. Theoret, Paul Scorer, Nigel Orr, David Gardner, Nikolai Kosyakoff, Benoit Steiner, Sandor Laky, Alexander B. Preobrazhenskiy, Rudolf Martin.

REPORTING BUGS

Report bugs to <migfilg_AT_t-online.de>.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 1998-2013 by Miguel Filgueiras <migfilg_AT_t-online.de> and Rogerio Reis <rvr_AT_debian.org>

This is free software distributed under the GNU General Public License; a copy of this license is part of the distribution.

The two GPSMan logos used by gpsman ara under Copyright (C) 1998-2013 by Miguel Filgueiras and are distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit
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SEE ALSO

Miguel Filgueiras, GPSMan User Manual, Version 6.4.4.2, October 2013
This manual, in both PDF and HTML, is part of the distribution of GPSMan and can be retrieved from the GPSMan site at http://sourceforge.net/projects/gpsman. It is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/.

October 2013 gpsman 6.4.4.2