Hi John,
Sadly, it made no difference whatsoever.
Interestingly though, I don't have the file gcvs.idx on my machine!
Cheers,
Roger

----- Original Message -----
From: "duble.stars" <duble.stars@...>
To: <guide-user@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 12:27 PM
Subject: [guide-user] iii.dat reformatted in yahoo files


>
> alright, as I seem to have a fixation with it being the iii.dat
file,
> here's a little test if you want to try it
>
> in http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/guide-user/files/ I've put
> iii.zip, which is a zipped version of iii.dat messed about with a
> little bit. You'll have to log in to your yahoo account to get at
> that, likely.
>
> Download it, unzip it. Go to your Guide directory and delete
iii.dat
> that is there and delete gcvs.idx that is there (incidentally, make
> sure Guide is not running when you do this).
>
> Upgrade to the test version of Guide again, even if you upgraded
once
> the other day, reupgrade.
>
> Copy this fiddled with iii.dat over to the Guide directory, run the
> new upgraded Guide, test on a name list 77 or 78 object that is in
one
> of the early alphabet constellations, _not_ Vulpecula.
>
> Of course, you could've already been testing with the old gcvs.tdf
> still likely on your hard drives, using GO TO TDF, to see if this
read
> the latest iii.dat properly, as a check.
>
> It'll probably make no difference but give it a try, but I've got
this
> fixation going that the iii.dat file needs to be thoroughly removed
> from suspicion, as they don't always do their data files that
cleanly.
>
> Cheers
>
> John
>
> PS I'll delete iii.zip in a day or two, no matter what the result,
as
> it only takes up the limited space in Guide-user group's filespace
>
>
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