Bill I have the same problem. Even with the 21 May update I can put the two
files revic.txt and revngc.txt in my Guide directory. It builds idx files
for them but nothing is listed in the More Information box when an object
is clicked on, even if there is information there which there is not for a
lot of objects.

At 09:48 23/05/2000 -0500, you wrote:

> John, about the NGC-IC problem: I goofed here. When I put the code
>together, that file was posted on the http://www.ngcic.com site as
>REVNGC2.TXT. Now, it's REVNGC.TXT. That's why you had to rename it.
>I'll be posting an update that looks for either name (easy enough to
>do), in hopes of evading the mess I've created.
>
> Still, you _did_ rename it; there should be no further problem
>that I know of. Anyone else seen this?
>
> I played around with a Millennium "clone" mark a while ago... the
>result I got follows. Save this message as MILLENNI.MAR (or just the
>lines between 'start of mark' and 'end of mark'), and you'll see it
>listed in the "Load a Mark" box. You may have to play around with the
>font you're using and with the margins (some printers have different
>ideas as to where they ought to be.)
>
> The Millennium atlas did cause me to make a few changes to Guide over
>the last year or so. For example:
>
>http://www.projectpluto.com/update7b.htm#proper_motion_vectors
> (displaying stars with lines indicating their proper motion over
> 1000 years)
>
>http://www.projectpluto.com/update7b.htm#side_labels
> (putting RA/dec labels outside the charts when printing, with
> choices as to which sides get labelled)
>
>http://www.projectpluto.com/extras.htm#millennium
> (ability to show the layout of the Millennium atlas, as a user-added
> dataset)
>
>http://www.projectpluto.com/rare_q.htm#spacing
> (setting oddball grid/tick/side label spacings. This matters because
> the spacing used on the Millennium charts is not one of those given in
> the "Spacings" dialog box in Guide.)
>
>http://www.projectpluto.com/future.htm#separate_legend
> (some thoughts for future improvements, in which you could just tell
> Guide to make a "Millennium left-hand-page" or "right-hand page" chart,
> or a "Uranometria-style" chart, and so on)
>
>-- Bill
>
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>
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