equipment failures or damage to underground utilities can occur when these parameters are out of range in accordance with this feature processor 114 receives the status of the various parameters being monitored by the rig monitor section and may provide for visual and or aural indications of each parameter visual display occurs on operations status display 174 the display may provide real time indications of the status of each parameter such as u201c ok u201d as shown for drilling mud and push force or an actual reading may be shown as indicated for the u201c boring tool temperature u201d of course visual warnings in place of u201c ok u201d may be provided such as for example when excessive push force is detected audio warning may be provided by an alarm 192 in the event that threshold limits of any of the monitored parameters are violated in fact the audio alarm may vary in character depending upon the particular warning being provided it should be mentioned that with the two way telemetry link between the drill rig and locator controller according to the aforedescribed first component arrangement displays 164 and 174 may advantageously form part of overall display 150 on locator controller 140 as shown in fig4 which may also include alarm 192 however such operational status displays.