[Gpsbabel-code] OSX Serial Hunt

[Nick H. <ni...@au...>]

 From the misc mailing list, but as it is code (kinda) I posted it 
here...

>  OS/X users serial port names make no sense to me

Here is a little script that works on my system to find the name of the 
newly inserted keyspan serial adapters name for use in GPSBabel - I 
don't know why they have such strange names.

#!/bin/sh
echo "Remove USB adapter then wait a few seconds - press enter to 
continue"
read NEXT
echo "Reading current devices"
ls /dev/tty* > /tmp/GPSdevices
echo "Insert USB serial adapter then wait a few seconds - press enter 
to continue"
read NEXT
ls /dev/tty* > /tmp/GPSdevices2
echo "New devices listed:"
diff /tmp/GPSdevices2 /tmp/GPSdevices
rm /tmp/GPSdevices*

I will have a think of some other things to make life easier for OSX 
users.

Cheers
Nick.