KARST - The interactive cave plotting program. Comments and suggestions to:

Garry Petrie
19880 NW Nestucca Drive
Portland, Oregon 97229

503-690-5465 (H)
503-531-5071 (O)

Internet gp@scic.intel.com

Free for distribution and modification

For best performance, copy files from foppy to hard disk by typing

xcopy b:*.* c: /s

and try the DEMO.BAT file

KARST15 can be started by typing:                       

dc:pathc\KARST15

where dc is the optional drive containing the program

pathc is the optional path containing the program

The graphics drivers, e.g egavga.bgi, must be located with KARST15.EXE and
KARST15.OVR

When started without any arguements, the program will start by searching the
machines disks to identify KARST surveyed caves. Alternately to skip the disk
searching, type:

dc:pathc\KARST15 ds:paths\caveroot

where ds is the drive containing the cave survey

paths is the path containing the cave survey

and caveroot is the cave survey root name, without the extension
                       
                       
                       
                       KARST15 Interactive Graphics

Once a cave plot is being viewed, the keyboard is active and the following
functions are possible. The keys context is within the portion being
displayed. That is, if a survey is being viewed, then overall refers only to
that survey and distributions are calculated only for that survey. The same
applies if al of the caves in a system are being viewed.

Key     Action          Key     Inverse                 Description

z       zoom in         Z       zoom out        All modes except combinaton
                                                plan and profile and quad

l       label on        L       label off       Mark stations with symbols
                                                and label some statons

j       junction on     J       junction off    Mark survey junctions and
                                                first station with symbols
                                                and labels

s       survey on       S       survey off      Label the start of survey

a       auto-clip on    A       auto-clip off   Clip into the plane of view
                                                in proportion to width of view

k       clip on         K       clip off        Clip into the plane of view by
                                                selected planes

f       lower front     F       raise front     Move front clipping plane in
                                                plan or profile views

b       raise back      B       lower back      Move back clipping plane in
                                                plan or profile views

e       color by survey E       color off       Ramdomly color each survey

d       color by depth  D       color off       Color shots by depth

y       color by year   Y       color off       Color surveys by year

g       color by geo    G       color off       Color by vertical passage
                                                distribution maximums

t       toggle title    T       toggle title    Remove or add title block

x       toggle legend   X       toggle legend   Remove or add compass & scale

o       overall view    O       overall view    Goto combination plan and
                                                profile view from any view

v       toggle views    V       toggle views    Switch between plan and profile

h       vertical        H       dip vertical    Calculate and show vertical
        distribution            distribution    passage distribution

c       compass         C       compass         Calculate and show azimuth
        distribution            distribution    shot distribution

q       toggle views    Q       toggle views    Switch between quad and plan

r       add rotation    R       sub rotation    Rotate profile by 6 degrees

m       magnify         M       reduce          Increase or decrease scale
        profile                 profile         factor of profile view

p       make plot       P       make plot       Output to plotter, printer
                                                or file once configured

arrow keys or           All views except quad: Move cross hairs about. Strike
mouse                   enter twice to recenter plot at location. Strike
                        enter once and use arrow keys to draw a box. Strike
                        enter a second time to enclose the area. If the
                        second point is to the right of the first, then the
                        enclosed area will fill the field of view. It the
                        second point is to the left of the first, then the
                        current field of view is enclosed in the box, zooming
                        out. For quad mode, move to the next quad in the
                        direction of the arrow key struck.

<esc> or <enter>        Exit plot and return to main menu

F1 - F10                Exit plot and move to selected sub-menu

