Re: [guide-user] Re: Locations

Laren Dart Jan 14, 2010

Don,

This is especially useful in researching
historical sites. You can hop from site to site
easily, Ur, Urgit, Anyang, etc. This is much
easier than modifying the primary locations list.

Larry

At 01:55 PM 1/14/2010, you wrote:
>
>Thanks for all the info
>
>Don
>
>On 1/14/2010 3:59 PM, stripe1966 wrote:
> >
> > Oh, one more thing.......
> >
> > Once you have a file made-up, copy it off somewhere else. When you put
> > a Guide update on, it will replace your edited file back with an
> > original one.
> >
> > So after you put on an update, copy your modified file back again.
> >
> > -Scott
>
> > > Yes, you can. Just edit the file "user_loc.txt".
> > >
> > > For example, I added:
> > >
> > > N 36.89778
> > > W 102.95139
> > > alt 1353
> > > okie
> > > Okie-Tex Star Party
> > >
> > > So now when I'm at Okie-Tex, I just click on the "settings" menu,
> > select "location", press the "Enter Location Name" button, and type
> > "okie".
> > >
> > > I've added about a dozen locations to my file. The hardest part is
> > remembering what I called each location.
> > >
> > > -Scott
>
> > > Can you add locations to the list of Locations... I.E. Home,
> > > Observatory, State Park Observing Field. So you can switch between
> > > them quickly
> > >
> > > Don


Laren Dart
http://ldart.got.net



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