Paul

You need to identify the file with its extension, i.e. - xz80.dat.
Make sure the first line of the tdf indicates "file (Drive):\dir\xz80.dat"
If the address where the file exist is wrong, it will not find it.

example of a line in tdf:
file c:\guide8\xz80.dat

Try it and let us know.

denis

----- Original Message -----
From: "paul" <astro@...>
To: <guide-user@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 11:19 AM
Subject: [guide-user] xz80 tdf


> Bill
> I was expecting your reply as below, but due to the delay
> bounce as I get the digest version, I did not correct
> my previous post, in that, the name of the star catalog
> is xz80p (no extension) although win2000 does recognize
> it as a DAT file (?) things I have also tried, I removed
> the xz80_zip files from Guide dir,
> caps and non_caps
> XZ80P & xz80p
> I change the name of the xz80p.txt file in case there was
> some confusion.
> the first line of the tdf file is
> file xz80p
> so I remain bewitched bothered and bewildered :)
> but happy to report I've had no crashes with any version of
> Guide8 to date, so I do do some_things correctly...
> but I assume this is user error, but I'm blind to it...
> more ideas are welcome...
>
> ******************** Bill posted 03 oct .... **********
> Paul, I think your only remaining sticking point is that the data file
> is XZ80P, no extension, not XZ80P.DAT. (This corresponds to the
> name of the file when you've downloaded and decompressed it. In
> cases of doubt, you can look at the .tdf file, which always gives the
> file name as the first thing. In some cases, including this one, the
> text on the 'extras' page will give some information about this, too.)
>
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