1Translating NAV Companion waypoints to another format is as easy
2as with any other format.  Just find the Companion_Waypoints database
3in your palm backup directory and use it as the input file.
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5When translating waypoints back to NAV Companion, though, you need
6to jump through some hoops:
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8First, you must merge any waypoints that already exist in the database
9in your Palm Backup directory with the ones you are adding; failure to
10do so will result in only the new points being available in NAV Companion,
11even if you give the new database a different name (it will overwrite
12the old database, even in your backup directory.  That's a feature of
13PalmOS, not of NAV Companion.)
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15To merge the databases, use a command line like the following:
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17gpsbabel -i magnav -f Companion_Waypoints.PDB -i geo -f geocaching.loc -o magnav -F merged.pdb
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19Second, you must use the installer to install your new PDB file.  Don't
20make the mistake of copying it over the existing Companion_Waypoints.PDB
21file; the one on the handheld will overwrite it rather than merging with
22it.
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24Finally, because NAV Companion is not designed to work with desktop
25applications, you must tell NAV Companion that its waypoints database
26has changed out from under it.  One way to do this is to go to the
27waypoints screen and attempt to scroll; that will force it to reread
28the database and fix the record pointers that it keeps on the heap.
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