Hi Bill,
Yippee. That's done it. It's great not to have to go through the
namelist route to get my favourite variable for the moment V2362 Cyg.
Cheers,
Roger

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill J Gray" <pluto@...>
To: <guide-user@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 4:42 PM
Subject: [guide-user] A brief history of errors


> Hi folks,
>
> Roger Pickard wrote:
>
> "...I deleted iii.idx but Guide re-generates it, so it made no
> difference at all."
>
> True. I made a series of errors here.
>
> First: yes, Guide looks for the index file 'iii.idx' and, if
> it doesn't find it, builds it from 'iii.dat'. Problem is, the
> version of Guide on the Web site doesn't do that correctly.
>
> So I fixed this and posted the corrected 'iii.idx' file, and
> all appeared to be well. Except that I didn't realize that the
> 'iii.dat' file provided on the Russian GCVS site changed a couple
> of weeks ago. (The main GCVS site still says "Version: Oct. 17
> 2006.")
>
> So I just got the new, 30 January 2007 file and created a
> revised index, which you can get at
>
> http://www.projectpluto.com/iii.idx
>
> (It's 8080 bytes.) That should get things going, though it
> leaves me with two things to fix.
>
> First, a format change was made in the new file. When you ask
> for 'more info', some of the comments from the GCVS will be
mangled.
>
> Second, I think Guide should be able to handle changes in
'iii.dat'.
> If it tries using the 'iii.idx' file and it doesn't work, it should
> rebuild 'iii.idx' and try again.
>
> I ought to get these fixed shortly. In the meantime, use of
the
> above 'iii.idx' file will at least enable you to 'go to' the new
> variable stars.
>
> -- Bill
>
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