Is there a more complete URL for the info on V8? It's quite possible that
I missed it, but after poking around in what I thought might be the likely
places, I couldn't find it with the basic projectpluto.com URL.

Thanks!

Karen




At 07:45 AM 7/23/00 +0000, you wrote:

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> From: "Bill J. Gray" <pluto@...>
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> Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 19:08:52 -0500
> From: "Bill J. Gray" <pluto@...>
>Subject: Guide 8/hard-drive Guide/Sky Tracker
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>Hi folks,
>
> Olivier Thizy asked about Guide 8's availability and how to upgrade
>to it... for those wanting the gory details as to what I'm planning to
>do in this version, I've updated my page on this subject:
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>http://www.projectpluto.com
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> 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.
>Once I get solutions I'm happy with, and once the beta testers agree
>I've gotten things right and a slew of jobs are handled (new manual,
>translations, getting disks made), I'll send out upgrade notices
>via e-mail. Once I've gotten replies from that, I'll get notices out
>via postal mail. The upgrade, by the way, will run $30.
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> Ned, about dealing with a hard-drive-ized version of Guide: I think
>you want to change that line in STARTUP.MAR to read something like this:
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>18 drive c:\guide-cd
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> The spacing is important. However, there may be still more trouble
>lurking out there, because you mention that the program _locked up_.
>It should not do anything so uncivilized; it ought to be giving you a
>polite error message such as "can't find data in directory
>thus-and-such". Please keep me posted if there are indeed further
>troubles.
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> Also: I've gotten some inquiries about use of Guide with the Sky
>Tracker setup (a motorized scope system developed by Victor McKeighan,
>the gent behind the Sky Commander, and currently in use on some of
>Rick Singmaster's scopes.) The problem is that aside from Victor,
>I know of only two people who have tried to do this. If anyone else
>has done so, you should be warned that you are essentially beta-testing
>that code, and I would very much like to hear about your results,
>positive or negative.
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>-- Bill
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