Re: [Gpsbabel-misc] NMEA real time tracking

[Bruce H. <gee...@gm...>]

On Monday 29 January 2007 12:42 pm, Robert Lipe wrote:
> It's safest to manually terminate it.
>
> It'll sense loss of the USB units as we can authoritatively tell if a
> unit was unplugged, powered down, or went away. I considered a (long)
> read timeout the serial side but didn't implement that those commonly go
> away for a few minutes to get batteries changed and so on and it seemed
> better to just keep reading on the port to see if it came back. (We
> can't do that on USB as it may come back on a different device name.)
>
> Now that I'm explaining it, I agree that it's inconsistent.
>
> RJL

Isn't funny how explaining something to someone that you always took for 
granted can often so up our inconsistencies? LOL.
-- 
bruce