"Map.tar.Z" untars into map data (one directory per continent) and a simple program that reads the map data and draws maps. The map data comes from the "CIA world map database" originally, but the version here is a highly compressed version created by Brian Reid. The map data consists of coastlines, rivers, lakes, international political boundaries, US state boundaries, and Canadian province boundaries. The map-drawing program uses some bits of code written by Brian Reid to read the map data. He has assured me the bits of his code used here are public. (He also uses the same map data in a DEC proprietary map-drawing program that is much fancier than this one. But that code isn't free like this code is.) I chopped "Map.tar.Z" into 3 pieces because some ftp's out there go bonkers with files bigger than a few Megs. Just cat the 3 pieces together. Map_small.tar.Z contains only Coastlines, Islands, Lakes, and Political boundaries in North and South America. The program "domap" is meant to be used with "vplot", but it shouldn't be too hard to modify it to work with something else. Domap has a known bug; things that cross +-180 degrees of longitude get clipped inappropriately. If you fix said bug, or make other improvements, send me back your version so I can replace mine with it. Thanks. - Joe Dellinger joe@hanauma.stanford.edu PS: Remember I'm trying to graduate so try not to pester me too much!