I implore you to post a [SUM]mary of answers that come your way.
There is not enough sharing going on here to make MI-L _really_ work.
If you are working with blocks (rectangles) this may
be satisfactory. If working with odd shapes it may not.
The following is incomplete, but may jump start
When using the buffer command in MapInfo,the
created buffer polygon has rounded corners at line endpoints and the ouside
corners of polygons. While mathematically accurate, thisis a problem
when digitizing agricultural spray blocks (crop dusting planes can't spray
curves) and creating floor