moved a desired roll orientation pointer 160 incrementally and sequentially moves between the clock positions for instance if the desired roll pointer was initially located at the 12 o 39 clock position not shown the locator controller operator may begin moving it to the 3 o 39 clock position by moving and holding the joystick to the right cpu 144 detects the position of the joystick and incrementally moves the desired roll pointer to the 1 o 39 clock then 2 o 39 clock and finally the 3 o 39 clock position at this point the operator releases the joystick of course at the 3 o 39 clock position the command established is to steer the boring tool to the right similarly the 6 o 39 clock position corresponds to steering downward the 9 o 39 clock position corresponds to steering to the left and the 12 o 39 clock position corresponds to steering upward as mentioned previously steering is accomplished by setting face 92 of the boring tool in an appropriate position in accordance with the desired roll of the boring tool with regard to boring tool steering it is to be understood that boring tool steering has been implemented using concepts other than that of roll orientation and that the present invention is readily adaptable to any steering method either used.