Re: 'g' suffix egg on my face

2019-08-18 Thread Achim Gratz via devel
Sanjeev Gupta via devel writes: > Eric, next request. I have a spare parallel port on the system, could I > have a software patch so that it can connect to a 10G optical WDM cable? But that only works if you drill a hole exactly down the center of each data wire in the parallel cable, you'll also

Re: 'g' suffix egg on my face

2019-08-17 Thread Eric S. Raymond via devel
Sanjeev Gupta : > Eric, next request. I have a spare parallel port on the system, could I > have a software patch so that it can connect to a 10G optical WDM cable? > Please? :-) /me whangs Sanjeev with the Mackerel of Chastisement. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond

Re: 'g' suffix egg on my face

2019-08-17 Thread Sanjeev Gupta via devel
I can vouch for the fact that 100% of grouchy/lazy hobbyists running EOL equipment who tried this gave this feature five stars. It is not only my Puck that is EOL, but my i686 as well. Eric, next request. I have a spare parallel port on the system, could I have a software patch so that it can con

Re: 'g' suffix egg on my face

2019-08-17 Thread Eric S. Raymond via devel
Sanjeev Gupta : > Eric, > > It works, perfectly. > > refclock shm unit 1 prefer refid PPS time1 0g flag4 1 > refclock shm unit 0 refid GPS time1 0.450g flag4 1 > > > Note that the first line (PPS) also needs a "g" suffix, else I am reset to > 19 years ago. > > gpsmon still shows wrong time, bu

Re: 'g' suffix egg on my face

2019-08-17 Thread Sanjeev Gupta via devel
Eric, It works, perfectly. refclock shm unit 1 prefer refid PPS time1 0g flag4 1 refclock shm unit 0 refid GPS time1 0.450g flag4 1 Note that the first line (PPS) also needs a "g" suffix, else I am reset to 19 years ago. gpsmon still shows wrong time, but I need that only to check skyview. Th

'g' suffix egg on my face

2019-08-17 Thread Eric S. Raymond via devel
Well, that was a simple fix. Turns out thre was a sneaky early exit in one of the functions I was using, it bailed out if it didn't see an exponent part. Sanjeev, it should work much batter now. Give it a try? -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond Love your country, but