Re: How to Interface to USB


"Mocacius" <Mocacius@xxxxxxx> wrote

> I was hoping that there would be a way to interface to
> *any* USB GPS device the client would decide to use,
> without knowing the specific device apriori.
> I also have seen that many devices instal/use a virtual
> com port, but again, I can't know that before hand, so ...
> Even knowing that you can't do something is very useful.

*M*,
But I think that it is more useful to know that you can
interface with a goodly fraction of such devices through
a real or virtual serial port *and* that a single fairly common
interface protocol can receive from many or most of these.
--JohnH
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