Re: [Gpsbabel-code] magproto bug

[Ron P. <pa...@fw...>]

RJL wrote:
>Ron Parker wrote:
>
>> If you're trying to write to a file rather than a serial port, and the
>> file doesn't already exist, gpsbabel complains that it can't find the
>> file specified.  If you somehow create a zero-length file with the right
>
>Could you please see if this improves things for you?  It pushes the
>"oh, this doesn't exist" test to happen after the "oh, this isn't a
>serial port" case.  The write case for windows was just plain misguided.
>Sorry about that.

This seems to not fail, and it generates the same output as the case 
where the file already existed but was empty.

However, and this might be a big however, I have not tested to make
sure it didn't break the serial port case, as I don't actually have
a GPS receiver for it to talk to and dboggny (who found the problem)
is currently unavailable.

By the way, I had to download and build mingw to test this.  First you
give me that final kick to get cvs working, and now mingw.  Will I be
buying a Meridian next?  Where will it end, I ask you?  :-D