Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!udel!rochester!uhura.cc.rochester.edu!uhura!saaf From: saaf@joker.optics.rochester.edu (Lennart Saaf) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard Subject: Re: XFCN's to return lat, long Message-ID: Date: 1 Mar 91 21:01:01 GMT References: <1991Mar1.195232.8766@ims.alaska.edu> Sender: news@uhura.cc.rochester.edu Organization: The Institute of Optics, University of Rochester Lines: 19 In-reply-to: ffdkl@acad3.alaska.edu's message of 1 Mar 91 19:52:32 GMT In article <1991Mar1.195232.8766@ims.alaska.edu> ffdkl@acad3.alaska.edu (LaSota Daniel K) writes: > > Hello, does anybosy know of any XFCN's to return the geographic > latitude and longitude as kept in the MAP cdev? > I know that there's no way to tell if the machine has accurate > data in these buffers but I heard rumors that the new 040 mac will > have a LORAN C built in just for this pupose. > }:) > I wrote an XCMD that does this. It is available via anonymous ftp at joker.optics.rochester.edu (128.151.240.1). The file is mac/Locale.sit.hqx. It is a Hypercard 2.0 stack, but you can grab the XCMDs out with ResEdit if you don't have 2.0. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | Len Saaf, The Institute of Optics, Univ. of Rochester, Rochester, NY | | Internet: saaf@joker.optics.rochester.edu Bitnet: SAAF@UOROPT | ------------------------------------------------------------------------