Sending the Information to a Printer, Datafile or Windows Application

To send the results to a printer or datafile, at the Main Menu press P to bring up Data Output menu panel at the bottom of the screen:

These outputs are text-only. For compatibility with many makes of printer, including many DOS emulation printers under Windows control, the S (printSummary) option prints Regular ASCII text devoid of all printer control codes. In the event of printing difficulties, use the F (toFile) option to write the data to a datafile which can then be read into word-processors etc. Press the Esc (escape) key to return to the Current Data and Main Menu screen.

If it is required to print what you see on the screen, this is readily achieved if you are running the Quarry program under a DOS shell in Microsoft Windows. Simply press the 'Print-Screen' key to capture the whole screen or, to capture only the current window, press the 'Alt + Print-Screen' key combination. Then go into MS Paint or your word-processor (such as MS Word), Paste in the picture from the clipboard and print as normal. You will probably prefer the screen background to be white rather than black, so within Quarry press the 'C' key to switch the background colour. You will also find the 'Alt +Tab' key convenient for swapping between Quarry, your word processor, and other Windows applications which are running. And don't forget that the multi-tasking capability of Windows allows Quarry to continue computing whilst you are word-processing.

Under DOS (without MS Windows), screen-dumping is also possible by using the DOS Graphics command (see your DOS manual/help) before starting Quarry, and then pressing the 'Print-Screen' key.

For the 'computer literate', quality graphing is achievable by creating results datafiles (see 'toFile' above) and importing the data into graphing packages such as Microsoft Excel.

Displaying the Ballistics Graph

The down-range ballistics is automatically calculated whenever the relevant data is loaded or edited. A graph of the velocity and time-of-flight of the test cartridge can be viewed: at the Main Menu press B.

Press any key to return to the Current Data and Main Menu panels

Changing the Program Simulation Steps

At the Main Menu, pressing S (Steps) accesses control of the computer simulation choices.

Use the & keys to swap between 'Fire at each range' and 'Range steps' options, and then use the & keys to change their values. Pressing(enter) will accept the new values, or pressing Esc (escape) will reject the changes.

The number of shots fired at each range can be varied between 1 and 20000, high values giving accurate results, but taking a long time to compute: 500 shots is a reasonable compromise. Try 10 shots per range and see how coarse is the graph, then try 2000 shots to see much smoother curves.

The 'range steps' refers to the range increment as the program calculates performance from muzzle to 100m: the usual value is 1m.