Hi folks,

I've just posted a new GUIDE8.ZIP, again about 460 KBytes, at

http://www.projectpluto.com/guide8.zip

with the following small changes:

Jari Suomela pointed out that if you install everything to the hard
drive, some of the comments for GSC stars don't get shown unless the
CD is in the hard drive. Rafael Barbera pointed out that in the same
circumstances, WDS-2001 comments don't show up. As with other "it
only works with the CD in the drive" problems, the trouble was that
files didn't get copied over. The update repairs both errors. But
to persuade Guide to copy those files, you'll have to go into "Extras",
"Install to Hard Drive", and toggle something. You can toggle it
back later, but Guide won't even attempt to install anything unless
it's persuaded that something has changed.

This WDS problem is not the same one that Pat Anway found a few
days back. I'd repaired that error, which involved an errant
backslash in my code. (One of the early probes to Venus supposedly
was lost due to a misplaced semicolon in the code... at least this
misplaced byte was not so disastrous.)

Julian Parks and Sam Herchak ("independent co-discoverers") pointed
out that the side RA/dec labels always appear on the left and bottom
margins on-screen, no matter how you set check-boxes in "Settings...
Margins Menu". I vaguely remember that, when I added this feature
a few years ago, I had a really good reason for making it work only
on printouts. But I no longer remember that reason, so I modified
the code so that the check-boxes adjust side labels both on the screen
and on printouts.

Incidentally, this file _should_ still work with a Guide 7 CD;
you just won't get assorted features that require the Guide 8 disks.
Be aware that my focus has been on getting this to work with Guide 8,
and it's possible that some things no longer function when used with
a Guide 7 disk.

-- Bill