A few notes on GPxfer V2.2 --- If you are familiar with GPxfer V2.1 you will notice several changes in the monitor portion of the program. The ability to display several more NMEA sentences has been added plus certain data can be sent to the printer by pressing the F3 key. Also, some bugs were removed from the program resulting from different NMEA versions. This program will upload waypoints to a GPS using waypoint numbers 001 thru 500, it will not upload using names. If the monitor program is displaying data where the downloaded waypoint is a name and not a three digit number it will display the first three letters on one line and the waypoint name stored in the library directly beneath. If a proprietary scheme is used to upload waypoints then you will have to use that manufacturer's software or a sharware program that is specific to that device. Program development was done mostly aboard a container ship using Trimble instruments. But I also use it for my own personal and more modest GPS (Garmin 45). Although modest in price it is an excellent receiver. Of course I can only use the monitor section because Garmin uses proprietary GPS waypoint uploading. You can demonstrate the GPxfer program's waypoint/route uploading features before a GPS cable is made. Simply connect a modem to COM1 or COM2 so the program thinks you are connected to a GPS. The signal transmitted goes no further than your modem. This also allows you to view the monitor screen. Although without signal detection movement, data, or cross track error tune bar. If you try to open a COM port that has a mouse attached, you will probably have to reload your mouse driver. Otherwise, no harm done. The waypoint library supplied is not empty. It consists of about 65 waypoints used by a merchant ship in the U.S. West Coast/Asia trade. All waypoints can be eaisly over written by zeros and the name deleted. Instead of uploading directly to a GPS you can copy to a file named gpx22.dat (waypoints or routes), this file is in the NMEA format. To do this press Alt+F after waypoint/route selection. you could then upload this file using another computer that is not running GPxfer software by using a DOS batch file or command line, using MODE and TYPE commands, with the TYPE command redirected to the correct COM port. For example... MODE COM1: 4800 N 8 1 TYPE GPX22.DAT > COM1 The GPS receiver has to be set up as described in the MANUAL portion of this program. When uploading routes, you are actually just transmitting waypoint numbers. So, make sure you have updated the GPS waypoint library to agree with the computer version. Hope some people in the maritime business, work or pleasure, have occasion to find this program useful. Regards, Charles Burch