Table 2 Field Types - Novatel GPStation-6 User Manual

Binary Size
Type
(bytes)
Char 1
UChar 1
Short 2
UShort 2
Long 4
ULong 4
Double 8
Float 4
Enum 4
GPSec 4
Hex n
String n
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Table 2: Field Types
The char type is an 8-bit integer in the range -128 to +127. This integer value
may be the ASCII code corresponding to the specified character. In ASCII or
Abbreviated ASCII this comes out as an actual character.
The uchar type is an 8-bit unsigned integer. Values are in the range from +0
to +255. In ASCII or Abbreviated ASCII this comes out as a number.
The short type is 16-bit integer in the range -32768 to +32767.
The same as Short except it is not signed. Values are in the range from +0 to
+65535.
The long type is 32-bit integer in the range -2147483648 to +2147483647.
The same as Long except it is not signed. Values are in the range from +0 to
+4294967295.
The double type contains 64-bits: 1 for sign, 11 for the exponent and 52 for the
mantissa. Its range is ±1.7E308 with at least 15 digits of precision. This is IEEE
754.
The float type contains 32-bits: 1 for the sign, 8 for the exponent and 23 for the
mantissa. Its range is ±3.4E38 with at least 7 digits of precision. This is IEEE
754.
A 4-byte enumerated type beginning at zero (an unsigned long). In binary, the
enumerated value is output. In ASCII or Abbreviated ASCII, the enumeration
label is spelled out.
This type has two separate formats dependant on whether you requested a
binary or an ASCII format output. For binary, the output is in milliseconds and
is a long type. For ASCII, the output is in seconds and is a float type.
Hex is a packed, fixed length (n) array of bytes in binary but in ASCII or
Abbreviated ASCII is converted into 2 character hexadecimal pairs.
String is a variable length array of bytes that is null-terminated in the binary
case and additional bytes of padding are added to maintain 4-byte alignment.
The maximum byte length for each String field is shown in the row in the log or
command tables.
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