Hello Bill,

Thank you for the quick reply, much appreciated, and I am now a little more knowledgable about Guide. Now I'm thinking that I should have asked that question about Charon.

I'm not a programmer, at least not since I quit attempting to write simple ones on my Commodore 64, so I ask my next question ou of ignorance. Do you have any plans to make Charon compatible with Windows?

Thanks,
Dave

--- In guide-user@yahoogroups.com, Bill J Gray <pluto@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Dave,
>
> (Background for the curious: USNO B1.0 consumes about 80
> GBytes and has therefore been distributed only on hard drives,
> and has been tough to get hold of. A possible source was
> announced today at
>
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/mpml/message/21720
>
> B1.0 is supported in Guide; see
>
> http://www.projectpluto.com/update8d.htm#b1_from_hard_drive
>
> Clay, I _think_ we got B1.0 working in Guide for your
> system a while back, but Charon still doesn't support it.
> You're right that it's been on the 'to do' list for a very
> long time... as have some other things in Charon; not much
> of anything has happened with that program for a while. I
> will dig into it a bit. (It helps, of course, that I have
> much of the code already written to access chunks of B1.0...
> in fact, C source code is posted on the Web site:
>
> http://www.projectpluto.com/source.htm#b1
>
> Might be handy for anyone thinking of getting the data
> and writing their own code to access it.)
>
> -- Bill
>