----------------------------Original message---------------------------- State University of New York at Stony Brook Stony Brook, NY 11794-3331 David Y Allen Library-Reference 516 632-7110 11-Aug-1994 11:28am EDT FROM: DYALLEN TO: Remote Addressee ( [log in to unmask] ) Subject: 1:100,000 scale digital line graphs This has probably come up on Maps-L before, but I can't recall the discussion. In any case, it is probably worth raising again since the world of computer software is constantly changing. I have just started trying to display the digital line graph 1:100,000 files, and havn't figured out how to do it. I am looking for a user friendly and inexpensive program (preferably free). I do not want to load them into an expensive GIS program, which I don't have. Supposedly these can be displayed using Geologic Information Visualization (GIV) software from U.S.G.S. I downloaded some of this software, but the documentation is terrible and I can't even get the decompression program to work. Should I continue trying to work with GIV, or is there an easier way? Has anybody else had experiences (positive or negative) with GIV or other public domain/inexpensive software for working with these files?