Hi John,

"...despite [the GCVS site at Sternberg Astronomical Institute]
being a simple setup, it fails if any spaces are passed, it being
the only HTTP GET url I know that thinks trailing spaces are
characters, so Guide would have to strip them before making the
search part."

Fortunately, Guide can do this, sort of. You'll see what I
mean if you use

http://www.projectpluto.com/ecanned2.dat

When you click for 'more info' on a variable or NSV star, Guide
will show a "click here for current GCVS info" line. Click on it,
and your browser will start up and will load the lastest data from
SAI.

-- Bill