Re: Streets & Trips - no USB GPS support help

birch999@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote in news:42d8bbaf.12753921
@news.netrover.com:

>>On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 Pink Floyd <pfloydnope@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>>OK, maybe something got lost in the thread.
>>My laptop does not have a serial port.
>
> Then why would you want a USB to serial converter? You can't
buy a
> laptop with a DB9 serial port these days.

Becasue the software, MS Streets &Trips, only look sfor a GPS
connected to a serial port. I need a conversion from my
computer's USB port to a serial port that I can plug the serial
cable fomr my GPS into.
>
>>S&T requires one to communicate with my GPSmap 60c.
>
> Dunno why. S&T works with other USB GPS receivers; and that's
what they
> include in their S&T GPS package.
I didn't buy the S&T GPS package, they use a built in converter
to let their software recognize the UPS out of their GPS
revicever.



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