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  <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Garmin PCX5 (pcx)</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="fmt_garmin_txt.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Chapter 3. The Formats</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="fmt_garmin_poi.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr /></div><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" ><a id="fmt_pcx"></a>Garmin PCX5 (pcx)</h2></div></div></div><p class="fmtcapshdr">
    This format can...
    </p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; "><li class="listitem"><p class="fmtcapsitem">
          read and write waypoints
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          read and write tracks
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          read and write routes
        </p></li></ul></div><p>This format has the following options: <a class="link" href="fmt_pcx.html#fmt_pcx_o_deficon" title="deficon option">deficon</a>, <a class="link" href="fmt_pcx.html#fmt_pcx_o_cartoexploreur" title="cartoexploreur option">cartoexploreur</a> .</p><p> Garmin documents only PCX5, an older format limited to
the lame NMEA six-character waypoint names that's treated as a
second-class citizen in current versions of MapSource.  In Mapsource,
use file-&gt;import to read these files.  If you name the files *.wpt,
Mapsource will find them more easily.
</p><p> In general, you should prefer the "mapsource" file format
to this one.
</p><p>This format has been extended to handle many - but not all - 
	files from <a class="ulink" href="http://www.gpsu.co.uk/index.html" target="_top">GPS Utility</a>.  If you encounter something that GPSBabel does not handle well, use
the free version of GPSUtil to read it and save as something more common.
	</p><div class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a id="fmt_pcx_o_deficon"></a><code class="option">deficon</code> option</h3></div></div></div><p>
      Default icon name.
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  The deficon option is used to control the icon output when writing to this format.   It overrides any icon information that might be present in the source data.
</p></div><div class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a id="fmt_pcx_o_cartoexploreur"></a><code class="option">cartoexploreur</code> option</h3></div></div></div><p>
      Write tracks compatible with Carto Exploreur.
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  Carto Exploreur requires a slightly incompatible variation of the PCX format
when written.  Specifying this option on write tells us to create that strain of PCX.
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