Survex
David Gibson
david@caves.org.uk
Wed, 10 Jul 2002 16:20:32 +0100
In article "Survex" in <!survex>, on Wed, 10 Jul 2002
Wookey <wookey@aleph1.co.uk> wrote
>Can someone who uses Windows help Bill out please?
Wookey - you didnt give Bill's email address, so Im posting this to the
list.
>On Sun 07 Jul, Bill Varnedoe wrote:
>> I have loaded the program, but where is the "run" button?? I don't
>> see how to load in my raw survey data.
Well, Ive never used Survex, and do not own a copy, but I do recall some
discussion of this point from a few months ago.
The short answer - which seems a bit bizarre to me - is that Survex does
not have a Run option. Apparently, you should create your survey data
in a simple text editor with a file extension of .svx. You can then
right-click on this file in Windows Explorer, and select the 'process'
option, which will start up Survex and process your data.
If youre not used to text editing you may run into problems. You can
create your file in Word, if you like, (but Notepad might be better) but
you must save it as a plain ascii text file with a file extension of
.svx, or else Survex will not understand it.
I know the people developing Survex are not really Windows people, but
the apparent (bearing in mind I havent bothered to look :-) lack of a
'standard' Windows Open / Save / Run menu seems a bit of an omission. I
expect its provision is way down the list of priorities. Viz...
In article "Survex 1.0.13 released" in <!survex>, on Fri, 28 Jun 2002
Olly Betts <olly@survex.com> wrote
>* Experimental support for Chinese (LANG=zh) - only a few messages are
> currently translated.
Olly had this to say, on the lack of a Run command, back in February...
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Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 20:38:11 +0000
From: Olly Betts <olly@survex.com>
To: Paul Baxter <paul@baxterz.claranet.com>
Cc: survex@survex.com
Subject: Re: Survex Help
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I've copied this reply to the survex mailing list as I believe this information
is not currently in the manual - I'll rectify that in the next release.
> After loading survex and unzipping "sample" could not open any of the files
> with extension *.svx, It seemed to what files that have extension *.3d. but
> there are no files with this extension?
You need to right-click on a .svx file in explorer and choose "Process" from
the menu which appears. This will create/update a corresponding .3d file in
the same directory.
> How do I start a survey of my own, as there are no "new" or "start new
> survey"
Simply type in the survey data into a text editor (e.g. Notepad) and save it
with a name ending ".svx". Some people create a "template" .svx file with the
usual commands but no survey data to remind them what to fill in. If you take
this approach, it's a good idea to make the template read-only (right click
menu, and choose properties).
Cheers,
Olly
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