> Andre, regarding scope communication over a network, or by
>writing data to a file: I've done things of this ilk over the years,
>but there has been very little interest in them. The main exception
>is the AltAz system, for users of Mel Bartels' scope control system.
>In that case, Guide writes assorted data (such as RA and dec) to
>a file, SLEW.DAT, and a separate, user-supplied program, parses
>that file to get RA/dec data. (You get a lot of other details, such
>as alt/az data and field rotation data. But as far as I know, nobody
>has made use of anything but the RA/dec da

Bill,

any info on your site about this? Think I saw something a year ago, or
perhaps in Mel's download. How can Guide be slewed to the scope current
position? Or do I drop this and let only Guide tell the world what
to do? How does one get guide to write to this file (I'm at work and
guide is at home, can't look at the menu bar right now...). It would be
great since my comm ports have already died twice due to summer electrical
storms and PCBs being what they are today, surface mount chips are very
hard to replace.

Cheers