Geeze Doc,

I thought it was your brother who was the computer wiz. Thank you so much.

Pete

--- In guide-user@yahoogroups.com, "P. Clay Sherrod" <drclay@...> wrote:
>
> Actually it is very easy to save: go ahead and open the file and then save it as it is to
> Guide; once done, then open the file again and SAVE as and make sure that it saves as
> "mpcorb.dat" file rather than an mpcorb.txt file.
>
> A much easier and far shorter download is to simply go to the MPCORB files on MPC at this
> time, and click on the "TODAY" file which is substantially smaller: only 1.34 meg.
>
> Once that is open, (it is a .text file) save to somewhere on your hard drive. Open the
> file once saved and then Save As "mpcorb.dat" and make sure that the file type in the save
> window is set to "All Files"
>
> You will have virtually every important NEO visible to normal telescopes that are needing
> observations.....tens of thousands of them.
>
> Dr. Clay
> _____
> Arkansas Sky Observatories
> MPC H45 - Petit Jean Mountain South
> MPC H41 - Petit Jean Mountain
> MPC H43 - Conway West
> http://www.arksky.org/
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "barringtonri" <pecorp@...>
> To: <guide-user@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Sunday, February 28, 2010 3:01 PM
> Subject: [guide-user] Struggling with MPC downloads
>
>
> > Ahhh Man! Ever since that jerk hacked the MPC they've been struggling to set up a clean
> > hack-proof mirror site. Some things are back up and running at
> > http://www.minorplanetcenter.org/iau/MPCORB.html
> > but options are limited.
> >
> > To refresh/update the main MPCORB.DAT file, there's no longer the option to save vs
> > open. It just opens. And it's impossibly large.
> >
> > There is a compressed version that downloads, but it's in a linux friendly GZIP format.
> > Has anyone running Win XP figured out how to deal with a .GZ format?
> >
> > I've spent hours on GnuWin32, but in the end that turns out to be just a compression
> > program, and doesn't seem to open anything.
> >
> > Pretty much out of business for astrometric work right now.
> >
> > Pete Peterson
> >
> >
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