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- Various upgrades, downgrades, improvements, and modifications are contemplated
- for SURVEY LAND YOURSELF. If you would like to be a part of this, then you
- must become a registered collaborator.
-
- I need help in testing various hardware, devising algorithms, and poofreading.
-
- Three daughters are planned:
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- DEEDPLT. This deletes all portions concerned with creating a new survey.
- It deals only with plotting someone else's land description.
-
- SURVEY LAND YOURSELF. The present bag.
-
- SCIENTIFIC SURVEYING. 3-D surveying, backsights, multiple instrument
- readings, precision, multiple loop closures, area, volume, star shots, &c.
-
- Graphics modes. BASIC purports to support EGA video modes, but I have no way
- of testing this. VGA has no standards; each brand has its own driver for each
- brand of software. Even Microsoft won't touch it. Actually, the problem isn't
- no standards, it's too many standards.
-
- Printer support. I need a copy of the bitmap graphics commands (from the
- technical manual) for your printer, and a tester.
-
- Compiled (.EXE) version. QuickBASIC will compile GW-BASIC source, altho not too
- gracefully. The GW-BASIC version CM28½ of CAVEMAP1 (Aug 91 vintage) has been
- transliterated to QuickBASIC and compiled by Scott Spurlock. Experimentation
- copies are available upon request.
-
- Instrument & program default parameters, user ID, &c will be put in their own
- file.
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- The textfiles will be rewritten. An attempt will be made to draw diagrams in
- the text, rather than require CAVEMAP. The present state of the art in
- generically combining text and graphics is abyssal, with lots of 4-H.
-
- A hypertext version may be attempted.
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- Examples will be added, modified, and\or deleted.
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- A default test mode for CAVEMAP will draw illustrations for the text.
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- An input translator will import a data file in goofus format.
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- An export translator will export to a data file in goofus format.
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- A sectional map routine will allow printing of large maps on several pages.