If only there was a way to merge what we get from azgeocaching.com with the selection capabilities of geocaching.com... There is much to dislike about the current implementation on geocaching.com. Much of it concerns the reader. The reader is an intrusive resource hog. Presumably to prevent piracy, the reader's copying capabilities are deliberately limited to two lines of text at a time, which makes using a Palm decryption application useless on any hint longer than about 50 characters. And there is no option to retrieve the listings with the hints decrypted, either. The find capabilities are primitive, and the GUI is non-standard (case in point: There is at least one dialog where the "cancel" button is to the LEFT of the "OK" button, exactly the opposite of any other software I've ever seen). I guess it really wasn't designed for what we're trying to use it for. One thing that geocaching.com does need to change is to add an option to control how many log entries you can get (or not get). You get the four most recent logs. Period. OTOH, the selection criteria that you can establish for a query are very powerful. For a beta implementation, they seem to have most of the bases covered very well. There's only one issue I've run into in the query specifications and ironically enough it involves locationless caches: Every query requires some sort of geographic limiter. Could be a radius around coordinates or a zip code, or one or more states or countries. But you've got to have one. Which makes it impossible, it seems, to write a single query to retrieve all locationless caches regardless of their "location"! Those couple of quibbles aside, I think Jeremy & Company did a very good job on the initial release. Now if they could only combine that query capability with a leeetle more flexibility in the user's choice of output format, I'd be one very happy cacher. Steve Team Tierra Buena > -----Original Message----- > From: az-geocaching-admin@listserv.azgeocaching.com > [mailto:az-geocaching-admin@listserv.azgeocaching.com] On > Behalf Of Jason Poulter > Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 5:35 PM > To: listserv@azgeocaching.com > Subject: [Az-Geocaching] Portable Files? > > > so are the portable files Jeremy on geocaching.com generates > any good? > havent checked them out yet? > > has anyone else tried them what do you think? > > let me hear from ya!! > > jason > > _______________________________________________ > Az-Geocaching mailing list > listserv@azgeocaching.com > http://listserv.azgeocaching.com/mailman/listinfo/az-geocachin g Arizona's Geocaching Resource http://www.azgeocaching.com