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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">The Solution</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="The_Problem.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Introduction to GPSBabel</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Getting_and_Building.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="The_Solution"></a>The Solution</h2></div></div></div><p> The original author of GPSBabel, <a class="ulink" href="/people/robertlipe.html" target="_top">Robert Lipe</a>, needed to convert waypoints between a couple of formats, so he
whipped up a converter and designed it upon an extensible foundation so
that it was easy to add new formats and made the program freely available. <a class="ulink" href="/people/index.html" target="_top">Many others</a> have contributed to the program since then.</p><p>  Most file formats added so far have taken under 200 
	lines of reasonable ISO C so they can be stamped
	out pretty trivially.  Formats that are ASCII text delimited in some
	fixed way can be added with no programming at all via our 
	<a class="link" href="Styles.html" title="Appendix C. GPSBabel XCSV Style Files">style</a> mechanism.
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