Jerry Broadus:
> I frequently use the computer program called
> "current master" to predict both tides and currents. It is a DOS program

"DOS"? What is this "DOS"?

> Toke Point is one of the areas that NOAA keeps tidal
> records on. If you're interested, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has a
> free little windows program called "tidetest"

"Windows"? What is this "Windows"?

> I don't
> happen to have a copy of NOAA's tide table books (also available in marine
> and in map stores) but with that much information they must have the
> corrections for those beaches published.

Now this sounds useful to me!

It is a curiousity of the modern world & state of technology that
some of us who make our living at it are shut out of much of the
(extremely good!) software available for PC/Dos systems. Often such
software is available for the Unix world (MY world) but at high cost.
Conversely, the PC/Dos world just doesn't quite offer the oomph/environment
required for some heavy-duty real-world tasks.

So, there's a barrier.

But, there's also paper :)

Or I could buy a PC but paper sounds cheaper...

Thanks for the information.


- Don Baccus, Portland OR <donb at rational.com>