martinm
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wookey said:You (mmilner) said you had trouble compiling therion. Which Linux are you using? Therion is part of the distro for Debian and Ubuntu (and presumably most derived distros) so no need to compile it. I maintain Survex, Therion, Tunnel, Terraintool, and Caveconverter packages for Debian (and thus derivatives) and will get round to packaging Topparser soon as Andrew seems to be failing to do it
One thing no-one mentioned so far is the Silva Type80 which is a lot easier to read than the Aluminium bodied instruments, lighter cheaper, and is somewhat more robust too. We buy them in preference to the Ali-bodied insts now.
Hi Wookie. It was on Mageia 3 (formerly Mandriva, formerly Mandrake) which uses rpm packages. I'm now on Mageia 4 so will give it another go at some point.
Re:- Compasses. I'm still using my trusty Silva Type 15 Ranger TDCL (compass/clino) I first got/used around 1980! It is a bit scuffed now and it's a pain having to swap from comp to clino all the time, but it's done a sterling job, even if I have had to lick mud off it on occasions, lol.
It would be great to have a device which I didn't have to faff about with in this way. I have bookmarked one of the dual comp/clino devices on ebay for around ?60, but obv. there are better ways of doing these things these.days. I've got a Disto Basic (and a tape backup!) Maybe I should get another cheap clino so I don't have to switch all the time. (The compass still has no bubbles in it after over 30 years!)
Would be cool to have an Disto X2/PDA though, I've got loadsa stuff which still needs to be surveyed. Need to get another job first first though, sigh...
Regards, Mel.
