Feb 11 I appreciate all the suggestions concerning my desire to have a readout of the bearing of a line. Bearing.mbx provides a reading after a line has been constructed, and Cogoline requirers that the direction and distance be provided before the line is constructed. What MI DOS provided was a real-time readout in a lower window, in decimal degrees, of the bearing of a line as it was being drawn in the cosmetic window. Thus, a new line could be pivited around its point of origin and the bearing would be instantaneously displayed on the screen. This utility makes it a snap to construct a road, map plot, or any boundary to a high degree of accuracy, and to measure the bearing between two points. Also, new points and line segments can be added as fast as you can read them from a table--unlike the present utility that requires each line segment be type in before construction, and a conversion from from DMS to decimal degrees. This capability should not be too tough to program as inexpensive paint programs such as Paint Shop Pro provide it standard.
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