Guide 9.0

comet Jan 1, 2011

Will Guide 9.0 be out the door soon?

--- In guide-user@yahoogroups.com, Bill J Gray <pluto@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Thomas,
>
> You're right; I broke that function, by adding a new function.
> I just fixed it, so the link to Eye & Telescope ought to work again:
>
> http://www.projectpluto.com/new.htm
>
> Please let me know if you see any issues with this. I'm reasonably
> sure it's all okay, but you know how sometimes "fixing" one thing
> breaks something else.
>
> The problem was that I added a new set of functions that used
> that same 9800... 9899 range, which was a silly thing to do. I've
> moved the "new" set down to 9700... 9799. (They're described a
> bit at the above page.)
>
> Thanks for catching this. I'm really trying to get as many bugs
> out of the way before Guide 9.0 is sent out the door. (As you'll see
> at the above page, I've just finished revising the help system to
> bring it up to date. The software for Guide 9.0 will be basically the
> same as this update; the big differences will be that the Guide 9.0
> DVD will enable me to update all the datasets as well, and to add
> new ones... most significantly, UCAC-3 as the basic star catalog,
> instead of GSC-ACT.)
>
> -- Bill
>