[guide-user] Re: SA1.0 Usage

Jan van Gijsen Feb 13, 2000

Hello all SA users,

I'm not sure but the SA2.0 appears to give some/same problems too.
What I tried this afternoon before my reply to Joe was actualy done
with some
A2.0 catalogs on my hard drive. It looks if there are differences with
SA2.0!!
As Denis wrote below: using SA2.0 from CD (same drive as real sky)
works on my computer, when you click OK when guide ask for CD #, and OK
again for the guide7 CD. This action creates an A10.dat file in the
guide directory, but
this does not happen when (succesfully) using the path option in
guide.dat
I made a new directory on my disk, copied the complete sa2.0 CD to it
and changed the path in GUIDE.DAT. (and removed A10.dat and sa20/a20
IDX files from the guide directory for a clean start).
When I start guide7 (VOF level7 2 deg. mag. lim+18 centered at Alpha
Ari = hamal) nothing is shown from the SA2.0 catalog, but an A20.IDX is
created. When i use the GO TO command now to go to POLARIS, only for a
part of the sky/screen sa2.0 stars are visible (RA 0 to RA 14 at
first). clicking around in the screen sometimes shows smaller,
somethimes larger areas covered with
SA2.0 stars, but not the complete screen.
Second test was done on star 50 cas. mag.lim.= 18. On level 5 you can
actually see that data from sa2.0 come from 3 different catalog files
(looks great, takes a while). but zooming in to level 6 or 7 makes all
SA2.0 stars dissappear. Same for HAMAL: zooming out to level 4 shows
just a part of the screen geeting filled with SA2.0 stars, that
disappear zooming back to 5 or higher.
Maybe this has something to do with the problem Joe had with SA1.0 ???
A last thing i noticed: using SA2.0 from CD creates a SA20.IDX file,
using the path options an A20.IDX file is created. So after trying out
a couple of things they are both there.

Bye bye and clear sky,

Jan












"denis boucher" <boucher-@...> wrote:
original article:http://www.egroups.com/group/guide-user/?start=320
> OK,
>
> I hope this will help. Go to starup.mar and look under line 63. It
will
> say Real CD "drive". SA1 will go where "drive" indicate. Change that
to
> the drive where you insert your CD or HD drive directory address.
>
> Denis
>
> > Well, I just reinstalled GUIDE 7.0. Tried to get A1.0 data from the
> CD
> > without any changes at all to GUIDE. It didn't work, same thing.
It
> kept
> > asking for CD #8 even after inserting my SA1.0 CD. Canceled out of
> the
> > operation but still nothing. I found the A10.dat file is Zero K in
> size.
> > Checked and reset the Mags to 16 and tried again, still nothing.
> >
>
>