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Larry
 
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Default DSC GPS input

Rosalie B. wrote in
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I was told by the folks at Cap'n that those units will not work with
the computer charts. I've got one for land use with maps, but have
not tried to use it with the nav charts.


Hmmm....I wonder if my Virtual Serial Port software addresses the USB ports
as well as the Ethernet port. I'll have to do a little research. The
Virtual Serial Port software does very good a providing the Cap'n with COM
port data from the wireless Ethernet or wired Ethernet, now. Cap'n doesn't
know any better. It's getting data from COM2 as far as it's concerned...
(c;

If the VSP can be told to connect to a USB port and provide Cap'n with fake
serial data, too, wouldn't that be just peachy?....(c;