Re: Mr. Orbit

From: Jim Hale (kj5tf@madisoncounty.net)
Date: Wed Feb 16 2000 - 04:10:15 PST

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    Too complicated for me - I checked out SatSpy and love it!
    
    The star maps are a little "weak", not as good as "Heavens Above" but good
    enuf.
    
    Setup is straight forward, easy to configure.
    
    Thanks to those who suggested it.
    
    Jim  -  Kingston, Arkansas
    
    
    ----- Original Message -----
    From: Darwin Teague <dishhead@iquest.net>
    To: <SeeSat-L@blackadder.lmsal.com>
    Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2000 5:39 AM
    Subject: Re: Mr. Orbit
    
    
    > Hmmm, this is getting complicated. My next plan of attack - 1980 and do
    > away with the output for day of the week all together. It only spit out
    the
    > right day of the week for sun-wed anyway.
    >
    >
    >
    >
    > At 03:49 PM 2/15/00 +0100, you wrote:
    > >> >>1999.exe resets the computer's calandar to 1999
    > >> >>2000.exe resets it to 2000
    > >> >>Convert.exe converts the dates in satdat.txt to 99
    > >> >
    > >> The day of the week is off, I never thought of that. Starting on March
    1st,
    > >> I'll change them to use 1995 - same day of week as this year starting
    in
    > >
    > >To be honest, I didn't either! I was only concerned that predictions for
    > several days would show passes on March 1 immediately following Feb. 28,
    > when Feb.29 should be output for day 00060.
    > >
    > >You should use 1972 to have both date and day-of-week work before, on and
    > after Feb.29
    > >
    > >/Bjorn
    > >
    > >
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