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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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