Categoria: Free Software

In this off-line weekend, I went on investigating the output from the Zeiss Elta R55 total station. First of all, it turns out that the file was not binary. A simple $ file downloaded_data downloaded_data: Non-ISO extended-ASCII text could have revealed this simple truth. My error was due mainly to the fact that most of…

This post is one of the “dear lazyweb” ones. Here at the department we have a Zeiss Elta R55 total station. This device has its own software for downloading recorded data, but, as usual, it’s a Windows-only, non-free application. Is it possible to download data from such a device using a GNU/Linux machine? Nobody knows.…