At 12:40 PM -0500 2003/05/07, William H. Leininger wrote: > It has always struck me that GPS data on a laptop should be a > Multiple-use feature, like the real time clock. Just because the > clock is displayed in the menubar doesn't mean that no other > application can get the current time. But if one app has the serial > port open, no one else can use it. Agreed. It would really be best if gpsd did a UDP port in addition to, or instead of, the TCP port. This way you wouldn't have to "bind" to it at all, you could just send it a packet and get back a response, and you could have many different applications able to use this information essentially simultaneously. -- Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@xxxxxxxxx> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania. GCS/IT d+(-) s:+(++)>: a C++(+++)$ UMBSHI++++$ P+>++ L+ !E-(---) W+++(--) N+ !w--- O- M++ V PS++(+++) PE- Y+(++) PGP>+++ t+(+++) 5++(+++) X++(+++) R+(+++) tv+(+++) b+(++++) DI+(++++) D+(++) G+(++++) e++>++++ h--- r---(+++)* z(+++)