"purple_stars" wrote in message
oups.com...
yes, it was me who posted those comments and not luc, and i did mix up
a few things. a lot of the confusion was in using "rs-232" when i
simply meant serial, but i was also wrong about a few things such as
NMEA 0183 not being a hardware specification. in any case, thank you
very much for the corrections, i really appreciate it.

You're welcome. It can indeed be quite confusing, all these standards and
acronyms. Basically, NMEA isn't all that hard but many manufacturers just
screwed up by implementing things their own way. And the user has to clean
up the mess....

Meindert