OT I hate the 2-line format. was Re: Splitting SHOT into constituent members

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Off topic but a pet hate of mine :-)

Richard Knapp wrote:
> "One Line" format example
> From To Dist Az Vert L R U D
> A1 A2 10 22.3 -3.0 1 2 0 0.5
>
> "Two Line" format example
> Stat Dist Az Vert L R U D
> A1 1 2 0 0.5
> 10 22.3 -3
> A2 0 0.5 0 0.5
....
> This is one reason many people are now using the "Two Line" format instead of the "One Line".
> CRF used to take LRUD at both From _and_ To stations. The To data was taken looking back to
> the From. (FWIW, it was supposed to be used for early passage modeling information but it
> never seemed to get entered.)

Often whenever the "2-liners" come to have to do a backsight (eg A3 -> A2), rather than
leaving a line and rewriting a new line with A3 above A2, they mentally compute what the
value would be for a forward site and record that !

Mike 

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