[guide-user] Guide 8/hard-drive Guide/Sky Tracker

Paul Schlyter Jul 23, 2000

> The two Big Unresolved Problems I have to figure out are compressing
> all those deep-sky images, and handling two CDs in a user-friendly manner
> that won't provoke a lot of angry/frustrated people calling for support.

I suppose you here mean that CD swapping should be minimized.

How much CD space does Guide 8 need? Does it need two full CD's?
Or does it just need more than one CD? If the latter, please consider
duplicating essential files on the two CD's, to minimize the chance
that a user will tell Guide to access a file which doesn't reside on
the CD currently inserted.

Also: will Guide 8 support users with two CD readers? Nowadays CD
readers are quite cheap, and getting a second CD reader isn't such a
big deal. Many users probably already have it: they may have kept
their old CD reader when they added a CD writer (which also works as
a CD reader, although a somewhat slower one).

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