OK - finally figured out what the problem was...I had simply ended up with
the wrong download from NOAA... sigh

The "Chartserver" is where the ENC charts are available...and I can read
them fine with the free Fugawi viewer..


Cheers,
Claus

"cvj" wrote in message
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Jeannette,

Now I am even more befuddled...I downloaded and installed
SoftChart_Viewer....and it only reads charts with the file suffixes of
.nos and .geo, which I would guess are the proprietary file formats for
that free viewer..

Help...

Claus
"jeannette" wrote in message
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On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 11:54:30 -0800, "cvj"
wrote:

Thank you Jeannette!

But I still cannot open the NOAA files because they are in the .KAP or
BSP
formats...

What am I missing here???

The ENC Viewer is for ENC charts.

You need this one: http://www.marineplanner.com/freeviewer.cfm

Jeannette
Bristol 32, Puerto Escondido, Mexico
http://www.eblw.com/contepartiro/contepartiro.html