Bill,

I have downloaded the new version and tried Goto Comet.
I always got the next comet in the list if I was say goto comet Ikeya
I got LINEAR 1999 Y1, the next in the list.
Maybe still a small bug.

Josch

--- In guide-user@y..., Bill J Gray <pluto@p...> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I've just posted another update. Its primary purpose is just
as a
> bug fix; all the color bugs are fixed, the hotkey list now
includes
> _all_ hotkeys, not just those currently active (thanks to Pat
Madden
> for pointing that problem out), SGP4 is now dead-on instead of
being
> an arcminute or two off, the "Go To... Comet" function now lists
> comets again, plus a host of others.
>
> One minor improvement was made in the display of some tables of
> events: in these cases, links are shown as red if the event is
> below your horizon, yellow if it's below altitude ten degrees,
> green otherwise, a blatant rip-off of an idea suggested in a
> _Sky & Telescope_ review of another program. I will probably be
> ripping it off still further in the future, so that "Go To
> Constellation", "Go to Common-Name Star", and "Go To Planet"
> (among others) will bring up similarly color-coded lists.
>
> However, the primary purpose of this update was to catch the
> known bugs and fix them.
>
> About the time format: I've updated
>
> http://www.projectpluto.com/future.htm#time_format
>
> to expand on this idea, and to provide a link to some
documentation
> of how to set the time format in STARTUP.MAR.
>
> Something which I now realize is _not_ documented: setting
planet
> symbols. With previous versions, you could set symbols for DSOs,
> satellites, the central cross-hair, the symbol used to indicate
> a "picked" object, etc. as described at
>
> http://www.projectpluto.com/update7.htm#dso_symbols
>
> With the current version, you can also add a line such as
>
> PLANET_SYM=m-32,16;l32,-16;m16,32;l-16,-32;
>
> to define a new planet-display symbol.
>
> -- Bill