Re: [guide-user] Update to Guide 9.0 (and 8.0) posted

P. Clay Sherrod Jan 20, 2012

If that is so, why do we need to change the "guide8.exe" to guide9.exe"? The upload
will likely have a "guide9.exe" file in the update, so in essence we should ONLY need
to eliminate the old "guide8.exe" file.

Bill, where are you?

Clay
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Dr. P. Clay Sherrod
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: "Arild Moland" <astralscooter@...>
To: <guide-user@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, January 20, 2012 2:49 AM
Subject: Re: [guide-user] Update to Guide 9.0 (and 8.0) posted


> The way I read Bill, is that Guide8 users from now on will use the Guide9
> software. Ie. that the old Guide8.exe shall be deleted, and Guide9.exe used
> instead. This is probably a break from what was done during the transition
> from Guide 7 to 8?
>
> Anyway, it makes sense for Bill to avoid maintaing two different exe's.
> What you get from ordering Guide9 is much more data. After all, we all know
> that Guide9 is basically the latest installment of Guide8 + a bunch of new
> data, so this way up updating Guide8 ought to make sense.
>
> Perhaps though, Bill should provide a copy of the Guide9.exe, named
> Guide8.exe, to avoid confusion? (Or better, provide a zip-file identical to
> the Guide9 update, wherein the Guide9.exe is renamed Guide8.exe.)
>
> Arild :)
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 2:48 AM, P. Clay Sherrod <drclay@...> wrote:
>
>> **
>>
>>
>> I understand....so how do I change it as you suggest on your website? Just
>> simply
>> CHANGE the name to "guide9.exe" or do we simply need to SELECT that one
>> and delete
>> the older "guide8.exe?"
>>
>>
>> Clay
>> _____
>> Dr. P. Clay Sherrod
>> 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: "Bill J Gray" <pluto@...>
>> To: <guide-user@yahoogroups.com>
>> Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 7:35 PM
>> Subject: Re: [guide-user] Update to Guide 9.0 (and 8.0) posted
>>
>> > Hi Clay,
>> >
>> >> Updating this to Guide8 has me and a couple of others confused; you say:
>> >> "Last hurdle: copy guide9.exe to guide8.exe, overwriting the latter.
>> You're now
>> >> done.
>> >> One oddity is that running guide8.exe will cause Guide to say "Guide
>> 9.0". "
>> >>
>> >> What do we copy and what do we overwrite? is there a guide9.exe file
>> that is NOT
>> >> in
>> >> the update files? Do we simply change the NAME from guide8.exe to
>> "guide9.exe"?
>> >
>> > There should be a 'guide9.exe' that was unZIPped from the 'guide9.zip'
>> file.
>> > It ought to be in your Guide folder.
>> >
>> > You're right that there will be no previously-existing 'guide9.exe' in
>> your case
>> > (or for anyone else running Guide 8.) Note that you are copying
>> guide9.exe _to_
>> > guide8.exe, not the other way around.
>> >
>> > -- Bill
>> >
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