Check out OpenCPN for linux (and every other platform) http://sourceforge.net/projects/opencpn/
- Stu On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Bob Johnson<[email protected]> wrote: > Has Linux gotten computer illiterate friendly yet? Seems that there was a > steep learning curve originally. BTW, congrats on your new family addition. > Bob > PDQ 36 > Peace > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ben Okopnik > Sent: Monday, July 27, 2009 4:02 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Liveaboard] NOAA and the Cap'n and Maxsea > > On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 12:10:33PM -0500, ken wrote: >> >> Maxsea 12.1 opens them with no trouble, however it will not look in >> sub-folders for them so you have to move each and every chart out of >> their single sub-folders that they were un-zipped to after you >> downloaded them and put all the single chart files in a single big >> folder one by one, a PITA. Thats what I have found. I did speed it up >> a bit by extracting only the charts, not the text files, then using a >> batch program to move them, but it only saves a certain amount of work. >> A batch robo-move program would be nice, I used to have one but can't >> find it. > > I'm _not_ a Windows expert by any means - gave up on it many years ago - but > you could use the 'Search' utility to look for *.BSB and *.KAP files, then > select all the results and paste them into a new folder. > Seems like it would work... > > Under Linux, it would just be "cp BSBs/*/*{bsb,kap} new_folder". But then, > you wouldn't need to do it in the first place. Linux programs aren't written > for the benefit of the company that sells them; they're written to benefit > the user. > > > -- > * Ben Okopnik * Editor-in-Chief, Linux Gazette * http://LinuxGazette.NET * > _______________________________________________ > Liveaboard mailing list > [email protected] > To adjust your membership settings over the web > http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard > To subscribe send an email to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ > > To search the archives > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > > The Mailman Users Guide can be found here > http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html > > _______________________________________________ > Liveaboard mailing list > [email protected] > To adjust your membership settings over the web > http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard > To subscribe send an email to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ > > To search the archives > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > > The Mailman Users Guide can be found here > http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html > _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
