Bill J Gray skrev:

> Hi Claudio,
>
> But I think it is more likely that, when you unZIPped
> 'guide8.zip', you didn't unzip everything from the file. It
> is _absolutely necessary_ to do this; if you simply unzip
> 'guide8.exe', or just that plus a few other files, things
> will go wrong.
>
> In this particular case, if you unZIP 'guide8.exe' and
> no more, you will not have the file 'cospar.txt'. This file
> contains the data Guide uses to determine the orientation of
> planets. Without it, their axes can point in strange places.
> I think you will find that your Guide folder lacks 'cospar.txt'.
> If so, unZIP 'guide8.zip', this time extracting _all_ of the
> files in it.
>
> -- Bill

In this case, isn't it important that Guide complains that the
essential data file cospar.txt is missing and refuses to continue,
rather than silently assigning weird values to the quantities which
should have been read from the missing cospar.txt?


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