Re: BUG: ubxtool enable/disable RAWX fails

[John Ackermann N8UR]

Hi Gary --

I was following the instructions given in the gpsrinex man page which
doesn't reference the -P command.

Using

ubxtool -e RAWX -P 20.30 ::/dev/ttyACM1

for an M8P works.

As far as I can tell, the only place the -P option is mentioned is in
the middle of the ubxtool man page, and it's not shown in any of the
examples there.

So this may not be a bug but it certainly is a serious documentation
issue.  An improvement might be to make the -P argument mandatory and
not optional, with a brief help explanation if it's not used.

The ubxtool man page should certainly make the -P argument much more
visible, and should include an example.

From your other message it seems gpsrinex might be deprecated, but if
not its man page should also be updated to show the correct command
syntax in the examples.

[ BTW, another non-obvious point across the documentation is that I
couldn't find an example of using "::/dev/ttyUSBx" as the syntax for
addressing one GPS device out of several.  It's hinted at, but never
expressly stated and there's no example that I could find. ]

Thanks,
John
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On 4/28/20 2:04 PM, Gary E. Miller wrote:
> Yo John!
> 
> On Tue, 28 Apr 2020 10:19:23 -0400
> John Ackermann N8UR <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> Ubuntu 19.10, gpsd built from head as of 27 April 2020.
>>
>> ubxtool does not seem to read or write the RAWX command for either
>> NEO-M8P or ZED-F9P.
>>
>> Multiple attempts to run
>>
>> "ubxtool -e RAWX"
> 
> You forgot the "-P" option.
> 
> It is way more complicated than that.
> u-center will mislead you, it does things without telling you.
> 
> Please send the output of:
>         ubxtool -p CONFIG -v 2 -P xx
>         ubxtool -p STATUS -v 2 -P xx
> 
> RGDS
> GARY
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