Hello List, Copying from Bradly Browne's e-mail, i modified my startup.wor as follows; Set Distance Units "m" Set Area Units "sq m" When i start MI, it doesn't default to "m". It defaults to "km". Any idea what i am doing wrong? Also wanted to default all the "Choose Projection" dialog boxes for a specific projection (lets say; UTM (NAD27 for Canada)). I don't really like modifying the projection text files in the MapInfo directory, because, when applying patches, if the file size and date stamp on a file is different, patch application fails (this is a case with majority of apps that we are running in our company) Thank you in advance, Mansour Shoari Monopros Limited Toronto, Ontario ============================================================================ =============================== Bradley Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> If you want to set the default in MapInfo so that when you use functions the units are "km" instead of "mi" as in Query --> Select then using "functions" in Assist pick "Area". By default this will be in "sq. mi". Add the following two lines to "startup.wor" which resides in you MapInfo directory. Set Distance Units "km" Set Area Units "sq km" And now every time MapInfo loads it will run the above commands and the output of functions will be returned in the above metric units. Regards, Brad Bradley Browne Support Manager Desktop Mapping Systems Pty Ltd 1st Floor 646 Newcastle St Leederville, WA 6007 Ph: +61 8 9328 2715 Fax: +61 8 9328 2716 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mapsys.com.au/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
