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This is where you enter the calls from your deed.
It is totally irrelevant whether the description is run clockwise or
anti-clockwise.
For your convenience, stations may be prefixed with any combination of letters
or numbers. Since every station must have a UNIQUE name, this lets you have
several land descriptions without duplicate station names. I suggest just a
few characters in the prefix. DSA is a lot better than "David Smythe Lake
Whoabegong Tract A"
You can also automatically number the stations from 00 to 99. The maximum
number of stations in this version is 99, in an attempt to keep memory
requirements within reason.
I suggest that you make up a copy of your deed with each call numbered. If the
land description is especially confusing (they all are just plain confusing)
you should write out a table (spreadsheet style) on paper. Giving each call
its own name and line will go a long way toward deobfusticating a land
description.
Only calls with a direction and distance make any sense to DEEDPLT. If you
have calls like "with the conditional line made between Dan'l Boone and Chief
Shitting Bull" or "with meanders of Crooked Creek", then you might want to look
at <SLY> Survey Land Yourself.
At present, I do not handle lines with <CURVES>.
You can automatically draw a map after each entry to see what you are doing. I
have been unsuccessful in preserving the data screen after returning from the
map. Thus you cannot see your previous data without leaving S = Shoot and
using D = Display. If you program in QuickBASIC 4.5 and have any suggestions,
then see <SCREEN0S>.
The units used for the <Directn> and <Distance> are set in <PARAMTRS>.
If you enter just a single minus sign "-", then you can back up to recover from
an error. Errors which are discovered too late are best corrected by editing
the data file with any text editor. The file is a flat ASCII text. You can
also use a word processor in text mode, but that is as smart as plowing your
garden with a bulldozer. Try QEdit or Boxer and give your cumbersome overblown
lummox commercial word processor to someone who needs to make a simple job
difficult in order to justify his miserable existence. Text editors are for
authors; word processors are for typists.
Access to the entire text files is thru <CONTENTS>.