Re: [Gpsbabel-code] Is this what is intended for GISTeq NMEA output?

[Robert L. <rob...@gp...>]

On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 6:29 AM, Roy Rankin <rr...@ih...> wrote:

> In nmea.c is the following
>
>                 /* GISTeq doesn't care about the checksum */
>                 if (opt_gisteq) {
>                         gbfprintf(file_out, "---,");
>                 }
>                 gbfprintf(file_out, "$%s*%02X\n", obuf, cksum);
> which has the effect of putting ---, before the start of the GPRMC record.
>

Yes, that really is what GISTeq looks like.


> I have no idea what the GISTeq is expecting but from the comment I would
> have expected that the intent was to replace the checksum with "---,".
>


It insists on having the (stupid) --- at the front.  It doesn't read the
checksum, so
we don't knock ourselves out to put the "----," in the buffer itself to be
included
in the checksum.

RJL