P. Clay Sherrod Mar 29, 2009
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Birmingham" <lone_scope2000@...>
To: <guide-user@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 29, 2009 7:16 AM
Subject: [guide-user] Re: Guide8 and USNO B1
> 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
>>
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