[hartley@aic.nrl.navy.mil: Re: Carto and Linux]

[Philip Balister]

Is there anyway, using Linux only, to get a compass .plt file from
survex? I am about to try out survex to see if I like it better than
compass, but to use carto, I still need a ,plt file.

Further Carto info is at:

http://www.psc-cavers.org/carto/

And details regrading possible better survex support are at:

http://www.psc-cavers.org/cgi-bin/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=157

Any suggestions on other ways of doing this?

Philip

----- Forwarded message from Ralph Hartley <hartley@aic.nrl.navy.mil> -----

Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 16:42:45 +0000
Reply-to: Ralph Hartley <hartley@aic.nrl.navy.mil>
Subject: Re: Carto and Linux
From: Ralph Hartley <hartley@aic.nrl.navy.mil>
To: carto <carto@sprucemt.com>

Philip Balister wrote:
> My current process for using Carto:
> 
> 1) Scan notes on Linux machine using gimp.
> 2) Go to work and use windoze machine to make Compass .plt file
> 3) Use Carto on this machine to make working copy.
> 
> I should be able to move step 3 onto the Linux machine at home,

Currently Carto can read the output from Compass and CMAP, both of which 
are windows/dos programs. You should be able to run either one under 
wine, but the setup effort if you don't use wine already may be 
considerable.

> but I
> am curious if there is a way to make the plot file on a Linux machine.
> Does Carto interface with survex output files?

I am interpreting this question as a request to make the answer "yes" 
(it isn't now), and have entered it into my bug database as Bug 157.

Ralph Hartley


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