Tools Menu

On file menu at the start of the program and from map windows.

• Compress/Decompress
• Load image: simple image editor.
• Stereo images
• Text editor:
• Show first lines text file: if you have a huge text file which not not open in Notepad, WordPad, or Word, this lets you look at the first 100 lines.
• Movie replay
• Military icon generator
• Unicode symbols
• Web page thumbnails
• Edit Zipatone
• EXIF--photos with geography tags
• Identify directory:  marks a directory with a particular type of data which the program cannot otherwise automatically recognize
• Spectral library
• List of matching files: get a list of the files matching a pattern in the name. 
• Copy files: copy all files, in a directory or its subdirectories, which contain a specified string in the file name, into another directory.  If the file already exists in the destination directory, it is not copied.
• Convert DBFs
• Open TCP interface
• Update help file
• Backup program EXE: copies the EXE to the c:\microdem\backup directory, with the version (date) included in the file name.
• Restore previous program EXE: if you have been backing up the MD exe, you can restore one of the older versions for the data in the backups file name.
• Close program and update: download new versions of the program. If you set the option on the Web tab of the options form, you can do an automatic backup of the EXE before the update.

Last revision 6/29/2018