[gps-talkusers] Re: Editing USER.POI Files

  • From: Michael May <MikeMay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 16:22:34 -0700

Chris,

No, you cannot open the user POI file in an editor. You can only open it 
within the GPS program.

Mike
At 09:20 AM 8/16/2004, you wrote:
>I was under the impression that one could cup entries from a user.poi file
>and paste them into another one and I'm not sure if this impression is an
>accurate one. I opened my user.poi file with Wordpad and it was all code
>with nothing that made sense in text format. Can someone help?
>
>Kris
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Les Kriegler" <lkriegl1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 11:52 AM
>Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: GPS POI Files
>
>
> > Hi Chris,
> >
> > So those two files are from version 2?  I have a CD, and I guess there
> > are files from version 2 and 3?  It sounds like I should delete those
> > two files from my poi directory on the flash card.  Thanks.
> > Best Regards,
> >
> > Les
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: gps-talkusers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:gps-talkusers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Chris G
> > Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 11:23 AM
> > To: gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: GPS POI Files
> >
> >
> > yes.
> > you don't need the old east or west poi files from version 2.0
> >
> >
> > *********** REPLY SEPARATOR  ***********
> >
> > On 8/16/2004 at 10:41 AM Les Kriegler wrote:
> >
> >>Good Morning Listers,
> >>
> >>I've just installed version 3.  All went well except for one issue.  I
> >>live in New York State and I copied 3 poi files to my flash card, New
> >>York Eastern, New York Western, and New York 204.bpi to the card.  I've
> >
> >>set my directory for the POI files to be \compact flash\poi\.  When GPS
> >
> >>is launched, I'm informed that the Eastern and Western files cannot be
> >>loaded, but the 2004.bpi file is loaded.  I think I'm missing something
> >
> >>here.  Does the 2004.bpi file encompass the Eastern and Western files,
> >>and is that why the first two do not load?  Other than this issue, all
> >>seems fine and ready to go.  Thanks. Best Regards,
> >>
> >>Les
> >>
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