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| Tony |
 Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 2:23 pm |
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Hi,
After a very long time I've updated GARNIX but before making it
available to the general public I'd like to get some feedback from beta
testers.
General information about GARNIX can be found here:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/anton.helm/garnix.html
However the new version will only show up there once I have enough
feedback and bugs that are found during testing are fixed.
The beta version is available here:
Source:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/anton.helm/geo/garnix16.0.tar.gz
DOS (binaries):
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/anton.helm/geo/GX160DOS.ZIP
Windows (binaries):
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/anton.helm/geo/gx160win.tar.gz
OSX (PPC binaries):
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/anton.helm/geo/gx160osx.tar.gz
New in this version:
1) Support for OziExplorer files
2) Decimal degree output (input was already available)
3) OSX support
4) Update to latest protocol specs
5) Some bug fixes...
I'm especially looking for people who can test under Linux and OSX
(intel) as I don't have access to such systems.
This SW currently does not support communication with USB devices.
I have heard a rumour of a Linux driver that maps the USB to a serial
port. If you have such a configuration I'd love to hear more about it.
Most OSX systems will not have any serial ports but USB-to-serial
converters, e.g. with the Prolific chip (PL2303), should work just fine.
Drivers for such converters need to be installed separately.
Please post your findings here in sci.geo.satellite-nav, preferably in
reply to this message. Unfortunately access to my E-mail address had
to be restricted (white-list only) due to heavy spamming...
Happy testing!
Tony |
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| nospam |
| Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 4:12 pm |
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Tony wrote:
Very Interesting Tony. I suppose I can download the source and look
myself but, what did you write the code in? Java I assume? I had
started such a project but never really finished it. The advantage is
that I used it as a model for my new C++ version.
I see from your website that you are cyclist? Looks like we have a
number of things in common.
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Bruce E. Stemplewski
GarXface OCX and C++ Class Library for the Garmin GPS
www.stempsoft.com |
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| Tobias Wendorff |
| Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 6:19 pm |
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"gar nix" is the German colloquial term for "nothing"  |
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| Tony |
| Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 2:29 am |
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| Tony |
| Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 2:38 am |
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Tobias Wendorff wrote:
Quote: "gar nix" is the German colloquial term for "nothing"
Living in England for seven years now, my German is deteriorating
but garnix was started 11 years ago and you're right it is a reference
to free software (a joke thoroughly lost on 99% of the population...) as
well as software that runs on unix systems.
Originally I had it also running on Solaris and HP-UX but these systems
are no longer available to me and it might need some minor tweaking to
make it build. |
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| karel |
| Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 3:01 pm |
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"Tony" <user@host.net> wrote in message
news:4s7Jh.22563$hR3.18221@newsfe2-win.ntli.net...
Quote: Tobias Wendorff wrote:
"gar nix" is the German colloquial term for "nothing"
Thanks for reminding...!
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Quote: Originally I had it also running on Solaris and HP-UX but these systems
are no longer available to me and it might need some minor tweaking to
make it build.
i might be of help as a Solaris beta tester -
earning my daily bread as a Solaris sys-admin
most days I can afford a glass of wine, too |
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| nospam |
| Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 7:53 pm |
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Tony wrote:
I never really tackled lex or yacc. Could you briefly explain how you
used it in your project?
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Bruce E. Stemplewski
GarXface OCX and C++ Class Library for the Garmin GPS
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| Tony |
| Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 2:37 am |
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nospam wrote:
Quote: Tony wrote:
C, lex, yacc
I never really tackled lex or yacc. Could you briefly explain how you
used it in your project?
Excellent manuals for the GNU versions of lex (flex) and yacc (bison)
are available at the links below.
For a how-to please see the garnix source code.
Flex and bison are used to read configuration and data files.
Bison is also used to parse the garmin protocol
(the scanner for this is written in C).
http://www.gnu.org/software/bison/manual/
http://www.gnu.org/software/flex/manual/ |
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