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    Re: Any interest?
    From: Gordon Talge
    Date: 2003 Nov 30, 19:37 -0800

    Michael Dorl wrote:
    >
    > As an exercise in learning Microsoft c++ and windows programming, I wrote a
    > small application to
    > reduce a set of sights.  It's assumed that the sights are all taken from
    > the same location (my back
    > porch does not move).
    >
    > The sights are read from a file and can be edited, printed, saved, etc.
    >
    > The program calculates the two possible locations for each pair of sights.
    >
    > The equal altitude circle for each sight is drawn to a meta-file and the
    > meta-file can be displayed in a
    > pop up window.  You can select an area of the display and zoom in on it to
    > get an idea of how the sights
    > agree and at what angles the circles intersect.
    >
    > The .exe file is about 120KB, the source code is about 250KB.  I used
    > Microsoft c++ version 6.0.  I'm willing
    > to share both with anyone who will give me some constructive
    > feedback.  This is a work in progress.
    
    Sounds good, but you need to dump Microsoft take up GNU/Linux.
    Try out the gcc and g++ complier collection all for free.
    "Free" as in Freedom and "Free" as in Free Beer.
    
    http://www.gnu.org and http://www.debian.org
    
    -- Gordon
    
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