Hi Clay,

There's probably some way to persuade Internet Explorer not to do this sort
of total foolishness. But for the nonce, I've posted this file :

http://www.projectpluto.com/add_hee.zip

UnZIP the contents of _this_ file to your Guide folder, and you should
be able to work around the problem.

-- Bill

On 11/21/2015 06:36 PM, 'P. Clay Sherrod' drclay@... [guide-user] wrote:
> Hi Bill....I am confused on this file....it is wanting to save as an Internet Web
> page and I cannot over-write the "add_mpec.hee" file in Guide because I cannot pull
> that up as a FILE TYPE on my save function.
> Should we save this first as TEXT file and then attempt to over-write the .hee file
> extension?
> Please advise....I have messed up my MPC updates for comets attempting to get this to
> work.
>
>
> Clay
> _____
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> MPC H45 - Petit Jean Mountain South
> MPC H41 - Petit Jean Mountain
> MPC H43 - Conway West
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bill Gray pluto@... [guide-user]" <guide-user@yahoogroups.com>
> To: <guide-user@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Saturday, November 21, 2015 1:23 PM
> Subject: [guide-user] Comet download workaround
>
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I've come up with a temporary workaround (may turn into a long-term one!)
>> for the problems with the missing comet data from IMCCE. The lack of this
>> data will eventually be a serious nuisance; the last version of their
>> comet data goes back to August, and it will eventually be of historical
>> interest only.
>>
>> However, if you download this file :
>>
>> http://projectpluto.com/add_mpc.hee
>>
>> and put it in your Guide folder (replacing an existing file), you'll
>> be able to use the "Add MPC Comets" button without having things go haywire
>> as Guide attempts to download files that don't exist. All I did was to
>> switch things so that, instead of downloading Patrick Rocher's comet
>> data from IMCCE and converting it into Guide's format, you will now
>> be downloading the last version of that data from my Web site, already
>> converted to Guide format.
>>
>> I must admit to feeling a bit thick that I didn't see this fix a
>> while ago. Say, within about fifteen seconds of realizing that IMCCE's
>> site had gone away and wasn't coming back anytime soon... oh, well!
>>
>> -- Bill
>>
>>
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