Re: [gpsd-users] Suggest a little tweak to the documentation.

[Tomalak Geret'kal]

On 04/09/2013 13:16, Peter da Silva wrote:
> gpsd.8 reads:
>
> -n
>      Don't wait for a client to connect before polling whatever GPS is
>      associated with it. Some RS232 GPSes wait in a standby mode (drawing
>      less power) when the host machine is not asserting DTR, and some
>      cellphone and handheld embedded GPSes have similar behaviors. Accordingly,
>      waiting for a watch request to open the device may save battery power.
>      (This capability is rare in consumer-grade devices and nonexistent in USB
>      GPSes which lack a DTR line.)
>
> It would be useful to change that last comment:
>
> (This capability is rare in consumer-grade devices and nonexistent in USB
> GPSes which lack a DTR line.)
>
> To note that some USB GPSes (like the Pharos iGPS-500, bundled with Microsoft
> Streets and Trips) are actually serial devices under the hood and require "-n"
> in applications like acting as an input to nptd.
>
> Maybe the minimal change would be "...in _those_ USB GPSes which lack a DTR 
> line."?
>
> At least give users a bit more of a hint where to look.
From a language purist point of view, the correct phrasing 
would be "...and non-existent in USB GPSes that lack a DTR 
line."
The distinction is in the different between "which" and 
"that"; the former elaborates, whereas the latter filters on 
a criterion.

Tom