Serial(3)

💖 Serial(3) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the Serial(3) page from the User Contributed Perl Documentation corner of the universe 🫶 it's a Perl module page, it's short, it's a lil mysterious, and we're gonna read it together like it's a group chat screenshot. no cap.

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✨ NAME ✨

GPS::Serial — the plug that gives the GPS::* modules access to the serial port 🔌🛰️ that's literally it, that's the whole job.

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

the entire vibe in one line, bestie:

  use GPS::Serial;

that's it. that's the flex. 💅

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so the description is just… "Used internally" 😭 and honestly? iconic. it's giving "i don't owe you an explanation." it's the main character of a module that is not here to be used directly by you — it's plumbing for the other GPS::* modules. iykyk.

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✨ AUTHOR ✨

shoutout to the author, no cap:

• Joao Pedro B Gonçalves , joaop@sl.pt

(and yes, that ç is exactly how it shows up in here — hold that thought, it becomes a whole plot point down in POD ERRORS 🙈)

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✨ SEE ALSO ✨

go be nosy, bestie, there's lore here 🌈

Peter Bennett's GPS www and ftp directory:

  ftp://sundae.triumf.ca/pub/peter/index.html.
  http://vancouver-webpages.com/peter/idx_garmin.html

Official Garmin Communication Protocol Reference

  http://www.garmin.com/support/protocol.html

obsessed with the fact that this tiny "used internally" module still points you straight at the official Garmin protocol docs. queen behavior. 👑

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✨ POD ERRORS ✨

okay so the docs themselves are not beating the allegations 💀 — "Hey! The above document had some coding errors, which are explained below:" and here they are, verbatim, because we don't gatekeep:

Around line 261:

    You forgot a '=back' before '=head1'

Around line 263:

    Non-ASCII character seen before =encoding in 'Gonçalves'. Assuming
    CP1252

so yeah — there's a missing =back and the author's name has a non-ASCII character showing up before any =encoding declaration, so POD just shrugs and assumes CP1252. that's the mystery of the ç solved, bestie. 🔍

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and that's the whole page!! short, sweet, slightly broken, extremely lovable 🎀

cute lil sign-off time: this page is from perl v5.42.0 and it's dated 2025-07-25. slay, stay hydrated, and always declare your =encoding before you drop a non-ASCII character 💜✨🦋