Known problems
The list of known problems (on 14 June 2007) is:
- GPSMan support for Garmin receivers may need to convert between
bytes and floating point numbers. Tcl/Tk has no
machine-independent way to do
these conversions and GPSMan only implements them for little- or
big-endian architectures that follow the IEEE floating point
standard. Some Garmin receivers do not use protocols having
floating point numbers and are not affected by this.
- Tcl/Tk 8.4 conflicts with the
Img
library versions
below 1.3, making it impossible to load/save
images in formats other than GIF and PNM.
- due to limitations imposed by Tcl/Tk, that does not
implement communication with serial ports on some Macintosh
platforms, GPSMan
will not be able to dialog with the GPS receiver on these
systems. See below for information on how to
use a USB port under MacOS X.
GPSMan User Manual
©1998-2007 Miguel
Filgueiras,
mig_at_ncc.up.pt
, LIACC & DCC Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade do Porto