Hi Arturo,

> Wow! GPL sounds very promising!
>
> Especially because Guide is so “low-tech” (in the sense that it still
> runs on Windows 95 and such) that it's sure not to have any strange
> dependencies. Looking forward to getting my paws on the source code! :-)

True, I've tried hard to keep it running on older systems. This has
been true all along, in part because I kept hearing from people who took
older machines out to their observatories. I think this also helped in
getting it to run smoothly in Linux.

Re the source code: as mentioned on my Web site, it may take a while
to do that. The main problem is that much of the source code (all in
C and C++, by the way) is just embarrassing. The problem is that I work
alone, and for a long time, had a very bad habit of not commenting and
documenting code as well as I should have. After all, if no one else
will look at the code, and I know how it works, what's the point of
commenting and documenting it? But now that it's to be seen by others,
I have to make it so that it's not an undocumented mess.

The source code that has been released, at

http://www.projectpluto.com/source.htm

has all had this sort of cleanup, or dates after I started getting
smarter about documenting code as I wrote it. It's a _lot_ of code...
however, getting what's left ready to post is a big job.

I'm glad to hear of your interest. As I wrote previously, I'm looking
forward to seeing what people do with the source code, both in terms
of revising/improving Guide and in how pieces of the code can be used
in other, possibly unrelated projects.

-- Bill