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Thanks for the pointers!

I did a little hunting around because Fugawi's only runs on NT, 2000
and XP, for some reason yet to be discovered, probably related to
reporting in background. That's usually the reason, now. I found a
program for the rest of us called SeeMyDEnc from www.sevencs.com in
Hamburg, Germany. It hasn't asked for money, yet, but may be
shareware. It runs under Win95, 98, ME, NT, 2000 and Linux, which is
nice. My system is Win98SE, because I don't like copy protected XP
saying NO BOOT if I change hardware. I'm downloading all 196MB of the
chart data, now, so I'll test SeeMyDEnc and see how it works. There
are a couple of other ENC freeware programs I saw in my search, too,
that didn't require networking and sharing to boot.


I've been looking at ENC charts using Caris Easy ENC 3.0 from
www.caris.com.

BTW, I was a bit leery of the WinXP hardware change issue
when my motherboard failed recently. I put in a new mother
board, processor, and video card and retained the old network
card and hard disk (which I backed up, then reformatted to
the NT file system. WinXP booted and re-installed without
problems. Apparently the hardware examination process gives
a very high weight to the network card.

Mark Borgerson