Pardon me for responding to my own post, but I was checking the Guide
website for another question and inadvertantly answered my own USNO A2.0
question by stumbling across a reference to it there!
For those interested, here is the relevant portion of the info:
"Recent increases in hard drive capacity have caused some people to copy
some or all of the entire A1.0 or A2.0 over to hard drive, consuming up to
about 6 GBytes. If you do this, you can now tell Guide to display such data
by adding a line such as the following to GUIDE.DAT:
A2_PATH=14.3;f:\a20;g:\;h:
In the above example, Guide will display of A2.0 data if the limiting star
magnitude is past 14.3. At that point, it will check the directory F:\A20
for A2.0 files; if it can't find them there, it will check the root
directories of G: and H:. "
Thanks to all for putting up with me!
Anthony J. Kroes
-----Original Message-----
From: Anthony J. Kroes [mailto:
akroes@...]
Sent: Friday, June 23, 2000 8:47 AM
To:
guide-user@egroups.com
Subject: [guide-user] Alternate USNO A2.0 Location
Hello All,
I am looking for a way to reconfigure Guide 7.0 to read my USNO A2.0 CD's
from where I have copied them to a spare hard-drive on my 'observatory'
computer. I figure the data will load faster and it will be much more
convienient than trying to swap CD's in the dark! However, I can't seem to
locate the 'location' setting for this. Guide insists on asking me to put a
specific CD in drive 'D:' (which is now my 2nd hard drive, not the CD ROM as
it was when guide was first installed). I've looked in the startup.mar file
where many other setting are, but did not see anything for A2.0, just a
setting for 'real CD' which didn't seem to change anything. I am sure I am
just looking at the wrong file as guide is so very customizable... Any
suggestions?
Anthony J. Kroes
Neville Public Museum Astronomical Society
Green Bay, WI
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