Survex 0.99 prerelease 5

[Mike Lake]

On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 10:18:14AM +0000, Olly Betts wrote:
> > HTM is not much use in Dos.
> Why not?  There are a number of web browsers for DOS, some of which even
> work on pre-386 machines:
......
> Also one audience for the DOS version is MS Windows 3.1 users, who have a
> wider choice of web browser.

Yeah ! Netscape 2.0 rocks on 3.1. It's much faster than Netscape 4.77 on
Win 98 and is more stable as it can't be killed by bad Java code :-)

> Are you really using .pos files often enough to want them automatically
> produced?  In my experience, most people never look at the .pos file.  Those
> who do look at it are using it for hand-plotting data (because they don't
> have a printer available - e.g. on expedition somewhere remote), and even
> they more often view the survey in aven/caverot than hand-plot it.

I think having the pos produced by a command line option when you want it is
a good choice. I agree with Olly that most times you dont use it. We use the
pos file only when hand plotting the points for the final map as the map 
size is often bigger than A4 ie A2.

Mike
PS. Olly, hear you will be out here in Jan, ace, look forward to catching up :-)
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