Ignore Uncontained Command

The default action of MapComp on encountering an object in an input file which does not match any of the object commands so far read from the .MAP file is to produce an error message ("Cannot find object to contain....") but to continue processing.

In some circumstances there may be a huge number of input objects which do not match. For example, in producing a map for one country from a database of world coastlines most of the odd little islands you've never heard of (until somebody invades them :-) will produce such messages. This is very tedious.

The ignore-uncontained command has the effect of supressing the messages for input objects which do not match an object command.


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