Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2002 19:55:14 EST From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Win95B/98/now street atlas
In a message dated 2/2/2002 5:44:40 PM Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >Well, this is interesting... I just ran Streets on my desktop, with no GPS > >attached. Selecting Tools>GPS>Configure GPS Receiver brings up a dialog > >box with choices of my 4 Com ports for GPS connection (the Lib wouldn't > >display this box - gave error message instead). > > That's funny... I have MS Streets on my L50. When I go to Tools>GPS>, the > sub-menu that pops up is entirely greyed out. > > I'm just starting to learn about setting up a GPS with mapping software, so > I'm new to this. If you're getting the sub-menu under Tools>GPS> to be > active and available on your desktop, should mine be available without > connecting a GPS? Or is there something else I missed in setting up the > software? > > >So that means that Streets on the > >Lib is not even seeing the Com ports at all, regardless of GPS >connection. > > >I'm not sure, this may be worse than I thought. > > You mentioned that you can connect your GPS to the Lib via the replicator > port, or via a PC Card serial port. Is the PC Card connection any faster or > > more reliable... or is a serial connection limited to a set data transfer > speed by definition? > > Matt To use a GPS with Streets, put the Setup CD in your CDROM, bring up Win Explorer, RIGHT-click on the CD icon and a list will appear which will include Install GPS (or something like that). Click on that and Streets will copy the GPS-related files to your existing Streets install. For the Garmin GPS I have, the recommended setting is 4800 bps, so regardless of connection you're limited by the device's requirement. I only got the PC Card serial port to avoid carrying the I/O bar or EPR around, but they both work just as well, and may be cheaper! The Eiger/Fujitsu card I bought on ebay ran $50 starting bid. Lee ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
