re: POSE can't communicate with valid COM port

I previously wrote:

> I connect my serial GPS to my laptop through a USB-serial adapter
> and I can then connect a Windows app like G7ToWin to COM5 and
> recover data. But there's no way I can get a Palm OS app (like
> Cetus) running in POSE to connect to the GPS on COM5. Stopping
> the Windows app doesn't change anything (in fact, if I set POSE
> to work on COM5, even though I don't get any data, it then holds
> up the port and it must be stopped before I can get the Windows
> app to communicate again with the GPS.)

> In short, what can prevent POSE from communicating over a serial
> port that's otherwise perfectly usable under Windows (XP SP2)?

Oops! My mistake: my GPS interface was set to transmit Garmin protocol, not
NMEA. So G7ToWin, that understands this proprietary protocol, could communicate,
while Cetus, that relies on standard NMEA, couldn't.


Luc Le Blanc