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In Unix and Linux systems access to the serial port is restricted. This means that either there is a program to lock the port with super-user privileges, or the permissions of the port are changed to give read/write access to a group of users or to all users. The latter is dangerous in that it creates security problems. In any case super-user privileges are needed to install the software or to give access to the serial port group.
The installation is done as with other such packages and there is no need for manual configuration. Users of GPSMan must belong to the group that owns the serial port to be used (normally dialout).
The program is launched by calling gpsman that may have no arguments or a single argument with the path to the serial port device, in which case the graphical interface will be used, or 2 or more arguments, in which case the command line mode will be entered.
After unpacking the files, using tar xzvf gpsman-6.1.1.tgz, the
GPSMan main file,
gpsman.tcl
, should be edited for
configuration (see below) and put where it can be
executed. The other GPSMan files should go into the directory whose
path is given at the beginning of gpsman.tcl
.
The program is launched by calling gpsman.tcl that may have no arguments or a single argument with the path to the serial port device, in which case the graphical interface will be used, or 2 or more arguments, in which case the command line mode will be entered.
The package includes a file
gpsman.sh
in the util
directory that is a shell script to
call gpsman.tcl
in graphical mode
with no need
to give the serial port as argument. This file should be edited for
configuration and placed where its can be executed.
After unpacking the gpsman-6.1.1.zip archive the
GPSMan main file,
gpsman.tcl
, should be edited for
configuration (see below) and put where it can be
executed. The other GPSMan files should go into the directory whose
path is given at the beginning of
gpsman.tcl
.
mig_at_ncc.up.pt
, DCC-FC & LIACC,
Universidade do Porto, 2004![]() | ![]() | ![]() | Installation |