Bill wrote:

>>As is mentioned there, the big advantage of ASCOM would be that it

would enable me to stop worrying about the various ways in which scopes
are controlled, expanding the range of supported scopes a bit.<<

Thanks, Bill; I appreciate the issues with the coding, and applaud
the idea of (someday) including both the ASCOM and the GUIDE "native"
scope driver; the latter has worked wonderfully for years without help
from any accessory software and with little need of tech support!

Merry Christmas to all,

Don