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- README (c) 1993 by DP_BYTER SURVEY LAND YOURSELF
-
- You can survey it yourself, quickly, easily, and inexpensively. You can find
- lost or disputed corners and lines, calculate acreage, and write land
- descriptions such that anyone can find your boundary at a later time. You can
- establish test plots, subdivide property, layout building foundations, formal
- landscapes & gaming fields, hide & recover buried treasure, or even map a
- cave. Despite the fact that this surveying method was devised to survey caves
- with the help of a computer, neither a cave nor a computer is necessary.
-
- No magic! The reason that you can survey it yourself so quickly, easily, and
- inexpensively is that you accept an error of 1% or 2%. Normally, a precision
- of 98% or 99% is much more than sufficient for my purposes. It could be for
- yours too. This is about the same precision as you can draw with a pencil,
- paper, ruler, and protractor. If you are real careful.
-
- There are several sections. First is "SIY", "Survey It Yourself: A Quick,
- Easy, and Inexpensive Preliminary Survey Using the Compass & Tape Method". If
- printed, "SIY" is presently 83 pages and 2 graphs long. I certainly didn't
- need that much space to teach you to survey, but I included lots of extras.
- These instructions are written in AMER_ENG.LNG [that's Standard American
- English with occasional lapses into British, Newspeak, computerese and
- pseudocode]. Your computer is assumed to be a pencil and paper.
-
- [Pssst! Page Dn to continue.]
-
- I find it much easier to work with a printout than with the computer screen.
- Scribble on your printout; you can always make another clean copy.
-
- Second is "CAVEMAP1", my personal program (in GW-BASIC) to handle the data and
- draw a map on my printer [but probably not on your printer! Eventually the
- computer moguls and software magnates will realize that there is more profit in
- user-friendly than in user-hostile. Meanwhile...]. >GWBASIC CAVEMAP1 <enter>
-
- Third is "RETIRE", some information about cheap land for sale here in the
- Kentucky Boonies, a good place to retire young or just have a vacation place.
-
- Fourth is "FILLER", since Nature abhors a ½ empty disk.
-
- And last is a "TAILER", files which I wanted at the end of the directory.
-
- Please, no mentally disabled. I'm only a guide here. I refuse to train you
- what to think. My goal is merely to demonstrate how to think. If you don't
- understand the difference, then don't bother me.
-
- If you have questions about surveying it yourself, it helps if you send me a
- copy of the deed or whatever and tell me what you want to do. If you enclose
- written permission to use it, then you might find your survey used as an
- example on my disk.
- [Pssst! Page Dn to continue.]
-
- Why am I giving away this valuable information? No magic. This is my
- advertising. I'm satisfied to make my money from selling the preliminary
- surveying instruments. So please copy and pass this information along.
-
- Please note that there is presently a malicious war being fought on the hard
- disks of America, between the forces of $10.00 software and the forces of
- $1000. software. Some diabolically sociopathic programmer may have insinuated
- a malignant warrior for the malevolent forces of evil into my code, either
- before or after it left my shop.
-
- Please be careful with company data! If you have important information on your
- computer, then stop here. Please talk to someone who knows how to protect your
- data before using this disk. And if you ever even suspect that my disk has
- caused you any trouble, then immediately contact me.
-
- Dave Byter
- ½ Fast Software Div of
- CAVE, Inc
- Ritner, KY 42639
- 606/376-3137 (day or night)
-
-
- [Esc to escape. Home to top of file.]
-
- [I like BROWSE! Will the author of BROWSE please stand up.]