Re: [guide-user] Comet download workaround

Denis Nov 21, 2015

Yap!

right click on the link in the email and select "Save link as..."

save the file in your guide folder.

Denis

On 21-Nov-15 6:08 PM, Bill Gray pluto@... [guide-user] wrote:
> 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
>> _____
>> Dr. P. Clay Sherrod
>> Arkansas Sky Observatories
>> MPC H45 - Petit Jean Mountain South
>> MPC H41 - Petit Jean Mountain
>> MPC H43 - Conway West
>> http://www.arksky.org/
>>
>> ----- 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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