LIST OF ACRONYMS USED IN COMPUTER PROGRAMS 



AMP- 



AXIS- 



BATHY- 



BURNS- 



CALMA 485- 



CDC- 



DATE- 



Function used in MINCON, MERFIX and 

 RHUMB to calculate meridional parts 

 for the latitude component. 



Calcomp plotter subroutine to 

 automatically scale and draw axes. 



Subroutine which determines which 

 quadrant the rhumb line will pass 

 through, extracts the gridded data 

 and calculates the profile for each 

 MSQLOC area. 



See SYNC0N2R 



(1) A large bed, graphical analog 

 digitizer manufactured by the CALMA 

 Corporation. 



(2) A processor program for (1) that 

 initially scales the synthetic track 

 from charts. 



Control Data Corporation 



COMPASS off-line subroutine which 

 automatically calculates an integer 

 day, month, year from the computer's 

 interval clock. 



DAWHAT- 

 DKLOCATE- 



DKOPEN- 

 DKREAD- 



DKWRITE- 



GCDIST- 



See SYNCHEX 



Subroutine which positions read/write 

 head at specified relative address. 



Subroutine which opens disk file. 



Subroutine which reads blocks of data 

 from the disk file in groups of 32 

 words or larger. 



Subroutine which writes blocks of 

 data on to disk file in groups of 32 

 words or larger. 



Subroutine used by SEAARCH for direct 

 solution of the great circle. 



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