Making the assumption that Guide 9 will still reside entirely in its own
directory, once you have it installed on one machine it should be a simple
task to transfer it in chunks using whatever portable media your other
machines will accept, including burning batches of files to your own CDs.



Regards, Jim.



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From: guide-user@yahoogroups.com [mailto:guide-user@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of P. Clay Sherrod
Sent: Sunday, 4 April 2010 6:51 PM
To: guide-user@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [guide-user] Update posted





Hi Bill and group.....
This is a very nice update and I have been working through most of the
changes; I
particularly think that the ability to view all asteroids and comets within
a selected
field of view (for the purposes of confirming the possibility of a new
object) is an
excellent addition.

One note: I am having difficulty since updating (this may be a bug) using
the EDIT
feature for asteroids and comets under the Extras_Asteroid/Comet
Options_Edit
Asteroid/Comet Data_Delete (that is all that I have attempted to do). When I
attempt to
delete a selected asteroid (for example when I have entered one individually
from the MPC
Ephemeris service that no longer is needed), I get an Exception Error and it
closes down
the program completely.

Other than that I see this as a major step forward.

I am, however, a bit worried about the "DVD-only" aspect of the upcoming
Guide9, since
several of my long-time observatory computers are NOT DVD-literate. Do you
have any
suggestions as a work-around in this regard for older CD-only hardware?

As always, your efforts are much appreciated.

Dr. Clay
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Arkansas Sky Observatories
MPC H45 - Petit Jean Mountain South
MPC H41 - Petit Jean Mountain
MPC H43 - Conway West
http://www.arksky <http://www.arksky.org/> org/

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill J Gray" <pluto@projectpluto. <mailto:pluto%40projectpluto.com>
com>
To: <guide-user@yahoogro <mailto:guide-user%40yahoogroups.com> ups.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2010 9:38 PM
Subject: [guide-user] Update posted

> Hi folks,
>
> I've posted an "in testing" update at
>
> http://www.projectp <http://www.projectpluto.com/new.htm> luto.com/new.htm
>
> Improvements are the fix to getting MPC elements, some new
> satellites of other planets, and the ability to limit the number
> of asteroids shown. This last is of particular importance. I'm
> finding that as we get to about a half million asteroids, the
> program can really bog down.
>
> I've also made a possible fix to the Vista/Win7 toolbar issue.
>
> Any reports will be most welcome. This is essentially the software
> I expect to release as Guide 9. The difference will be that with the
> Guide 9 DVD, I'll be able to provide updated datasets (the ones
> on the original disks are getting horrifying out of date in some
> cases), and some new ones; in particular, the UCAC-3 catalog.
> I was able to compress UCAC-3 considerably, a good thing considering
> that the raw catalog consumes eight GBytes.
>
> However, Guide 9 will be on one DVD, not two CDs... there was
> just no way to get everything I wanted onto two CDs!
>
> The use of DVD will have a couple of advantages. I think a lot of
> people never saw the nifty things on the second Guide disk (things
> such as the detailed lunar map and the images of DSOs when one zooms
> in). It's not really all that difficult to swap disks and run the
> "Install to Hard Drive" process, but it's not something that occurs
> to people naturally. My hope is that with Guide 9, more people will
> get to see all the good stuff, not just what's on disk 1.
>
> -- Bill
>
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