To view a particular area, you can invoke the installed program by typing LINMAP at the DOS prompt. The program displays the question "polygon number?" in a small box in the upper-left corner of the screen display. You should be prepared to enter the reference and record numbers matching the record you wish to examine, with a single space separating the values. For example, typing 238 3 in the corner query box will cause LINMAP to display an outline for Turkey showing where a subgroup of the Crimean Tatars migrated to from 1878 to 1880 (See example below). The program displays a message "searching for 238 3" while it searches the input data file. The program is ready to display another outline when it once again indicates the question "polygon number?".
If the return key is pressed prematurely or an invalid number is given to LINMAP, the program displays the message "cannot find it" under the usual "polygon number?" prompt. To exit from LINMAP, hit the CTRL-Z keys simultaneously, followed by ENTER.
LINMAP.CFG contains the following default options/settings: --------------------------------------------------------------- 0 Display grid? (0=no 1=yes) 1 Display political boundaries? (0=no 1=yes) 1 Display rivers? (0=no 1=yes) 7 Set the background color. 8 Set the 1 degree grid color. 15 Set the 10 degree grid color. 15 Set the coastline color. 15 Set the political boundary color. 9 Set the river color. 9 Specify the number of polygon colors to use. 11 12 13 14 10 2 3 4 5 Specify a color list for data outline display. Note: the display color choices (from 0-15) are: 0 black 4 red 8 dark gray 12 light red 1 blue 5 magenta 9 light blue 13 light magenta 2 green 6 brown 10 light green 14 yellow 3 cyan 7 light gray 11 light cyan 15 white ---------------------------------------------------------------You can turn on an optional 1-degree latitude/longitude grid by changing the value in column 1 of line 1 from 0 to 1. Similarly, you can choose whether or not to display political boundaries and rivers by modifying the values in lines 2 and 3.
Lines 4-11 of the configuration specify the color settings to use for various aspects of the screen display. (You can choose any color from 0 to 15--see the color list specified above for choices.) The configuration shown above will use light gray (7) for the background color, dark gray (8) and white (15) for the latitude/longitude grid (if grid is turned on by a 1 in line 1), white (15) for coastlines, white (15) for political boundaries (if turned on by a 1 in line 2), and light blue (9) for rivers (if turned on by a 1 in line 3).
The final two active lines (10 and 11) of the configuration specify the number of colors to use for displaying outlines and the list of the order in which the colors are to be used. You can choose up to 9 colors for display. The colors specified in the final line will be used in order until the last one is used. At that point, the first color will be re-used for data display. The program will display as many outlines as the user wishes. If the map becomes too busy it can be refreshed by exiting the program as shown below and redrawing the map of Europe.
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