Once again thanks for your help. This works, however, reading the CD
is very, very, very, slow and I gave up after 15 minutes when only
15% had been reached. I'm using 166 Pentium and DOS/Win 95. Again any
ideas? Or is this a "fact of life" just too slow to use.

--- In guide-user@y..., Bob Elliott <elliottb@u...> wrote:
> At 02:03 2001-04-23 -0000, you wrote:
> >I have two CD-Roms drives in my computer drives E and F. How do I
tell
> >Charon that the USNO-A2.0 catalog CD is in F ? The CD for Guide7 is
in
> >E.
> >I can't find an "INI" file for this that I can modify. Is there
one?
> >If so where is it? Is this possible anyway?
> >
> >Thanks.
>
>
> Chris:
> Are you using the USNO A2 stars in Guide? If so then you have added
a line
> in the Guide.dat file like the one below. If not go to the
guide.dat file
> and add the following line:
>
> A2_PATH=15.0;f:\ This tells both guide and charon to look for the
A2.0 cd
> on drive f.
>
> The 15.0 is the magnitude where the software starts looking for USNO
A2.0
> stars in Guide. You can set it to any value you want. A little
> experimentation will give you the density of stars you want Guide to
use.
>
> Charon will look at this path for its stars also if you have
selected the
> USNO A2.0 option in the charon startup menu. It will read Match to
GSC-ACT
> if you haven't changed it. Hit the enter key until it toggles
through all
> of the choices and you will find on that reads "Match to A2.0"
>
> That should get you started and charon will ask you to insert the
correct
> cd in drive f.
>
> Bob Elliott
> 750 Hobbs Observatory
> Fall Creek, Wisconsin