Determining lengths of vector lines

[Bill Hargrove]

ng240 at ursus.pnl.gov (ng240 at ursus.pnl.gov) writes on 10 Feb 94:
>Does anyone know how to measure the length of a line in a vector file?

Darrell McCauley immediately responds with code to do the job.

Vector measurers:

     Beware the famous Mandelbrot fractal coastlines problem when you are
measuring vector lengths - the more nodes you put in the vector, the longer
the line will get!


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