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Originally Posted by mswlogo
So yes, there is confusion.
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If I gave you the impression that I was making a personal attack on you, then I apologize. I wasn't trying to make any implications about your knowledge of the subject, I was just trying to clear up an apparent assumption by some people about the need to run GPS Viewer before running other GPS apps.
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Originally Posted by mswlogo
You are not "Priming" it with GPSGate, your operating it with GPSGate
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Priming vs operating really seems like a semantic issue, but I understand what you are saying, and I thought that is what I was getting at when I said: "It initiates the GPS, then redirects the output to whatever you tell it to (BT, a particular com port, etc)."
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Originally Posted by mswlogo
Nothing needs priming. I think some tools just give better intermiediate progress towards a lock than others and it feels like better progress.
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There are some programs that simply refuse to work with the native WM GPS intermediate driver. It's not just a matter of feedback on the progress toward a lock. Some will absolutely, positively not work, which is why a program like GPSGate is sometimes necessary. I was using priming in the sense that it initiates and controls access to the GPS chip. Maybe that is an incorrect usage, I don't know, but in that sense there absolutely are programs that require "priming."