[Gpsbabel-code] Re: confusion about command line parameters

[<al...@al...>]

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Ok. Then that probably needs to be doc'd (if it is I couldn't find it) 
since it
goes against this faq entry:

I told it to name my file "foo" and it had the nerve to name my file "foo"
instead of "foo.something". What's up with that?

The names you give GPSBabel are exactly what it uses. It doesn't try to 
"guess"
anything from the file name. (As perspective, we support about 5 different
types of file traditionally named ".wpt" and about as many named 
".pdb". Rather
than guess, we let you name things exactly as you want them.

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Just my .02 not trying make anyone mad.

Alan

Quoting Robert Lipe:

> Alan wrote:
>> I'm not familiar with the ozi format but if I issue:
>>
>> gpsbabel -i gpx -f own.gpx -o ozi -F temp.ozi
>>
>> then temp.ozi does not get created. However I get this if I leave off
>
> No, but 'temp.wpt' does.
>
>
> $ gpsbabel -i gpx -f MyMiddleTN -o ozi -F temp.ozi
> (robertl) rjloud:/home/robertl/src/geo/mgpx
> $ l temp*
> -rw-rw-r--  1 robertl robertl 48120 Dec  6 13:33 temp.wpt
>
>
> This is another artifact of the "too smart" stuff we just talked about.
>
> If own.gpx contained tracks or routes, the Ozi writer would have
> additionally created temp.plt and tmp.rte for you, too.
>
> I find it very weird.  (Then again, I find it wierd that programs
> use the names of files to deduce what's in them...)
>
> RJL
>
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