Thanks for all who responded to my question of how to connect GPS points to
create a line shapefile: Paul Ramsey, Eric Olson, Gillian Woolmer, Chris
Bertinato, Nicholas Lindenber, Jerome Perkin, Dewet Bosenberg, B.J.
Tetreault.

Some suggestions I got were: Use the ArcView 3.x extension "TxtTool.avx" to
convert x,y coordinates to polygons; more than one person told me ot use
the script called pt_ln_pl.ave; others thought the xtools extension would
work.

I tried some of them and got errors. Some people asked me what brand of GPS
unit was used - but I had no idea. The one that ended up working for me was
from Mathias Tobler, and it is a script written for tracking animal
movement from the web site http://www.absc.gov/glba/gistools/

The only problem I had was when I finished I had a spider-web of lines
because my original text file contained several different continuous lines,
but of course the program didn't know that and connected all of them
together. Just a little editing and I got exactly what I needed.

Thanks everyone-

Beth Bennett
GIS Analyst
California Department of Transportation