Denis Nov 21, 2015
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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