Command : SURVEY

Expert

[##:##] survey <ITEM> <SECTS> ?cond<op>cond

The survey command shows the distribution of a commodity or resource in map form. Sectors which are owned by you, but do not match the conditional have their current designation displayed much as in a map. Sectors matching the conditional are shown in one of several ways.

Sectors which have none (or a level of zero) of the item being surveyed show up as a blank.

If <ITEM> is a commodity, then sectors having the commodity present will be shown as a digit from 0 to 9, the digit representing the number of hundreds of the commodity present in the sector. Sectors with more than 999 of a given commodity will be seen as a '$'.

If <ITEM> is a sector resource, then the 0 to 9 digits will represent the number of tens of the resource present in the sector. Sectors with more than 99 of a given resource will show up as a $.

If your terminal can support standout mode, then sectors selected will be highlighted.

Sectors not owned by you will show up as blanks.

NOTE: the syntax of this command is somewhat bizarre, as the conditional cond<op>cond is for all practical purposes NOT optional if the survey is to display any values.