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>    This is the manual for <SPAN
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>Survex</SPAN
> - an open-source software package for
    cave surveyors.
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>Table of Contents</B
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>Introduction</A
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>Getting Started</A
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>Survex Programs</A
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><SPAN
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><DT
><A
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><DT
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>General: How do I?</A
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>Working with Larry Fish's Compass</A
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>Introduction</A
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>This section describes what <SPAN
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>Survex</SPAN
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manual.</P
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>About <SPAN
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>Survex</SPAN
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><SPAN
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>Survex</SPAN
> is a multi-platform open-source cave surveying
package.
Version 1.2
currently runs on UNIX, Microsoft Windows 95/NT and
successors, and Mac OS X.
We're investigating support for various
palmtop devices.
Version 1.0 has fewer features, but also runs on DOS and RISC OS machines.</P
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>We are well aware that not everyone has access to super hardware
- often surveying projects are run on little or no budget and any
computers used are donated.  We aim to ensure that <SPAN
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>Survex</SPAN
> is
feasible to use on low-spec machines.  Obviously it won't be as
responsive, but we intend it to be usable.
Please help us to achieve this by giving us some feedback
if you use <SPAN
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>Survex</SPAN
> on a slow machine.</P
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><SPAN
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>Survex</SPAN
> is capable of processing extremely complex caves very
quickly and has a very effective, real-time cave viewer which allows
you to rotate, zoom, and pan the cave using mouse or keyboard. We have
tested it extensively using <ACRONYM
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>CUCC</ACRONYM
> and <ACRONYM
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>ARGE</ACRONYM
>'s surveys of the caves
under the Loser Plateau in Austria (over 11,500 survey legs, and over
66km of underground survey data). This can all be processed in a few
seconds on a low-end <SPAN
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>Pentium</SPAN
> machine.
Survex is also used by many other survey projects around the world,
including the 
<A
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>Ogof Draenen</A
> survey, the 
<A
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>Easegill</A
> resurvey project,
the <ACRONYM
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> survey, the 
<A
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><ACRONYM
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> Picos expeditions</A
>, and the 
<A
HREF="http://www.hongmeigui.net/"
TARGET="_top"
>Hong Meigui China
expeditions</A
>. </P
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><SPAN
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>Survex</SPAN
> is still actively being worked on.  Version 1.0 was
complete in some sense, but development continues - initially in reshaping
Survex into a more integrated GUI package.</P
><P
>We encourage feedback from users on important features or problems,
which will help to direct future development. Contact addresses are at the
end of this manual.</P
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><A
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>About this Manual</A
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><P
>If there's a part of this manual you find hard to understand, please do
let us know.  We already know Survex well, so it can be hard for us
to spot areas where the manual doesn't given enough information, or
doesn't explain things clearly enough to follow when you don't know what's
going on.  It's helpful is you can suggest a better wording, but don't worry
if you can't, just explain the problem as precisely as you can.</P
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>The master version of this manual is an <ACRONYM
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you are going to send us <SPAN
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to include them if you work from this master.  You can get it
from the source archive (docs/manual.sgml) or from <A
HREF="http://survex.com/docs.html"
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>the Survex website</A
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>Terminology</A
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>Throughout this document we use British terminology for
surveying.</P
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>station</DT
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>a point in the cave that you survey from and/or to</P
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>a line joining two stations</P
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