Bill, as usual you're wonderful!
Thank you

Andrea Pelloni
157 Frasso Sabino

At 15.29 22/09/02 -0500, you wrote:

>Hi folks,
>
> I've moved the 'test' version, formerly found on the 'new.htm' page,
>to the regular update location (the one accessed from the main
>http://www.projectpluto.com page.) It hasn't changed greatly from
>that test version, but it does include three new features: a
>"full screen" mode, the ability to add more than one aperture
>circle, and the ability to make color PostScript files.
>
> Actually, there is one other small change. In the past, you
>could go into "Display... Star Display" and set a "mag range".
>This specified the range of magnitudes between the smallest
>and largest star dot shown; set it to, say, 9, and at a limiting
>magnitude of 14, stars brighter than mag 5 would get no larger.
>This is still the default behavior.
>
> But the inquiries about having a bright limit, as well as a faint
>one, prompted me to make a little change possible. If you edit
>GUIDE.DAT and add the line
>
>BRIGHT_LIMIT=y
>
> then the brighter stars will simply be omitted. Thus, in the above
>example, only stars brighter than mag 5 and fainter than 14 would
>be shown.
>
> So far, only stars have this capability. Asteroids, galaxies, etc.
>will have to wait a little while. (As will some method of controlling
>this that's less ugly than having to edit GUIDE.DAT!)
>
> Glenn, you're probably referring to this page:
>
>http://www.projectpluto.com/future.htm#Linux
>
> which I updated a couple of days ago, after a long period of neglect.
>The idea of writing a Linux version is still appealing to me, and the
>tools for doing so continue to improve. However, as with so many
>projects, there has been a gulf between "gee, that would be nifty"
>and "I've got time to work on that". Aside from reading a bit about
>TrollTech's Qt toolkit, and porting certain pieces of source code to
>Linux, I can't say that I've made much progress.
>
>-- Bill
>
>
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