P. Clay Sherrod Nov 21, 2015
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From: "Denis boucherd@... [guide-user]" <guide-user@yahoogroups.com>
To: <guide-user@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 21, 2015 7:46 PM
Subject: Re: [guide-user] Comet download workaround
> Yap!
>
> right click on the link in the email and select "Save link as..."
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> save the file in your guide folder.
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> Denis
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> 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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