Yes, that is a very good idea to document the binary format of UOV files !

Sincerely,

Laurent Zimmermann
http://users.skynet.be/zmn/cab/cab.html

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Sent: lundi 26 juin 2000 13:03
Subject: Re: [guide-user] UOV for comet LINEAR


> > Thanks to Hartwig for his overlay of C/1999 S4 (LINEAR). As this feature of
> >Guide seems very useful, I tried to learn how to make such UOVs.
>
>
> This UOV was not generated using GUIDE, but using my own program.
> Bill had told me the binary file structure of the UOVs, and I made my
> program to generate an UOV. Some effort had to be made to find a
> way to place the labels that they wont mix with the tracks and the path.
> I somewhere have Bills description on my hard disk, and I can send it to this
> site.
>
> By the way I consider it a great advantage of GUIDE that Bill makes all
> internal file formats available to programmers.
>
> Hartwig
>
>
>
>
>
> H. Luethen
> h.luthen@...-hamburg.de
> priv: Behnstr. 13, D-22767 Hamburg
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