Downloading Waypoints To A Personal Computer - Leica MX400 Operating Instructions Manual

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and may not work with all equipment. It is provided for your use to
store data on a PC using normal ASCII text editors.
WPL can be sent as version 1.5, 2.0 or 2.1.
field#: 2 3 4 5 6
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xxxxxxxxxxzzzzzzzzzz*hh <CR><LF>
explanation / actual use:
2 & 3: Waypoint Latitude, North or South, N/S
number of decimals can be set to 2,3,4 or 5 (default 2).
4 & 5: Waypoint longitude, East or West, E/W
number of decimals can be set to 2,3,4 or 5 (default 2).
6. Waypoint identifier; 4 place numeric waypoint number,
followed by 1 space, followed by 10 characters for the top
line of the description, followed by 10 characters for the
bottom line of the description. When this field is output,
you may see spaces between the xxx and zzz. These are
"fill characters" and are necessary to fulfill the 10 charac-
ter count to maintain character placement when read back
into the receiver.
7: Checksum
can be set on or off (default on).

Downloading Waypoints To A Personal Computer

You can use any terminal or communications program to download
or upload waypoints and routes to or from the receiver and a PC.
Set the PC to:
4800 baud
8 bits
1 stop bit
no parity
no flow control
When sending data to the receiver, it must be sent in block form,
followed by (with an appended) CR (carriage return) and LF (line
feed). Normal communications programs, like the Windows 3.1 or
3.11 Terminal program are sufficient to get the job done. Unfortu-
nately, Hyperterminal in Windows 95 doesn't provide as simple a
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$GPWPL,llll.ll,a,yyyyy.yy,a,cccc
Waypoint
Version 3.3