I just got this by email. Hopefully I should be able to make some real
progress. Jeff, I think you said you had serial experience with VB and
VC++ so I might want to get together with you and go over this. If
anyone else thinks they have anything to add to this please let me know.
Marty
> Marty,
>
> These files are on T:\spb\gps
> The position file is a binary (I don't know why) you can call Jeff at
> (770) 528-7664 for more details
>
>
>
> Stephen,
>
> I'm sorry about the delay on this. COMOPEN.BAS and POSITION.BAS are
> Quickbasic 4.5 programs, while
> JUNK.TXT is a sample output from Gene's GPS unit. The output is formatted
> as NMEA 2.0 standard, although
> there are other output formats you can use. COMOPEN.BAS is just a test
> program to open and read a
> serial port. POSITION.BAS takes input and averages it. I don't think you'll
> have much of a problem
> converting to Visual Basic, but you might have a problem getting real time
> data through the serial port.
> The project I was working on was under a real time and money crunch, and we
> wound up just reading the GPS
> unit using the terminal program in Windows 3.1, then shooting the data
> through the Quickbasic program
> a couple of minutes later. Visual Basic hopefully has a better interface to
> the I/O ports than DOS does.
> Anyway, have fun.
>
> Jeff
>
>
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