The following is a translation from the German of the file
INFO.TXT in HURRIKAN.ZIP.


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The file ALLE.PRN contains the tracks of  hurricanes and
subtropical storms in the Atlantic Ocean from 1975 to 1998.  The
data is in Versamap ASCII PRN format.  Note: Versamap versions
prior to version 1.51 cannot read this format. 

The file ALLE_R.PRN contains the same data as ALLE.PRN, but with
positions rounded to whole degrees.

The file ALLE.TXT is a pure text file (DOS) with the following
format: 

Header:   Year followed by name of the hurricane (or storm)

Columns:  (1) Date (day + month); (2) time of day; (3) north
          latitude; (4) west longitude; (5) wind speed in knots
          (rounded to nearest 5 knots).

Example:

     1996: KYLE

     Date      Time      Lat(N)    Lon (W)   Wind

     11. 10    12 h      17ø18'    86ø30'    30
     11. 10    18 h      16ø54'    87ø 6'    45
     12. 10     0 h      16ø36'    87ø30'    45
     12. 10     6 h      16ø18'    87ø48'    35
     12. 10    12 h      16ø 0'    88ø 6'    30
     12. 10    18 h      15ø42'    88ø24'    25


The file ALLE_R.TXT contains the same data as ALLE.TXT, but with
positions rounded to whole degrees.

Examples for the use of this Hurricane track data in teaching are
found in the following essays:

  Kurt Trinko: Achtung Hurrikan! Eine Gradnetzuebung fuer die
  Sekundarstufe I.  In: GW-Unterricht Nr. 58/1995, Seite 51 -
  54.

  Kurt Trinko: Der Hurrikan "Emily". In: geographie heute
  136/1995, Seite 48 - 49.  Wiederabgedruckt 1999 im
  geographie heute-Sammelband "Raetsel, Spiele, Tests", hrsg.
  von Hartmut Haubrich.


This public domain Hurricane track data was reformatted by Kurt
Trinko (email: trinko@chello.at).

Please insert a reference to my Website
(http://geo.eduhi.at/trinko/) on use of these data.

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Note added by Charles H. Culberson, author of Versamap.  The
first line of ALLE.PRN is,

-1 27.5 -79.0:AMY_27_6_1975_0h_VMAX=25

All text to the right of the colon (:) is a comment which is not
printed by Versamap.  If you change the first line of data to,

-1 27.5 -79.0 "AMY":_27_6_1975_0h_VMAX=25

Versamap will print the name Amy beside the first point of the
hurricane track.  See the Versamap Help file topic "File format
for PRN files" for details of the PRN file format.