I was planning to take a look. Maybe I will have better luck than with the last one I said I would attempt to package (hamlog). Also I have been thinking for some time about packaging jnos and am about to start on that after I complete some computer upgrades. I'd like to reorganize it a bit to strip out the non-Linux stuff, hopefully without violating Debian policy. It's non-free unfortunately. mtrack might be a better project for a first packaging attempt. As far as I know there is only one Debian developer in town and I need to get with him for key-signing before the university semester is over and he leaves. Bob On Tue, May 04, 1999 at 09:27:31PM +0200, Joop Stakenborg wrote: > Anyone of the satellite experts have time to take a look at this? > It would be a nice program for our hamradio section: > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This is to announce the availability of mtrack version 0.2 beta. Mtrack is an > X window based satellite tracking program, it is available under the GPL > and of course comes with full source. The program provides a window which > contains a map along with the sub-satellite point and footprint, as well as > the users home location. Information about the satellite is provided below > the map. > > The program can also display a table showing future visibility, the visibilty > at a large number of other locations, and updated keplerian elements. A full > data editor is built in to allow for the addition, deletion and modification > of the satelite data, location data and user preferences. The program can also > import NASA two line elements directly. There is a choice of maps, and the > colours of the map, footprint, satellite and user can all be changed. > > It is available from ftp://ftp.sgbt.com/ you will find two new files, > mtrack-0.2.tar.gz and mtrack-0.2.tar.bz2. The new mtrack program has the > following updates: > > - Uses the free GTK+ widget set (http://www.gtk.org/)instead of Motif. This > means that it is buildable by anyone. I think it looks a lot nicer too. > > - Year 2000 compliant, it too would suffer from the Year 2000 appearing as 100. > > - Increased the maximum number of satellites from 200 to 500. > > - Included updated keplerian elements. > > The majority of the work I have done has involved the first point, the basic > satellite tracking algorithms and functionality have not changed compared to > the original Motif version. > > The program as released is considered Beta, and I have thought of a few things > I would like to modify slightly before I make the final 0.2 version. All of the > changes I can think of are cosmetic and I will probably issue a small patch set > as > well as new tar files when it becomes available. > > Please download the program and give it a go. The TODO file included within the > tar file details additions I would like to make. One of the items is to add > help texts, this does not require any programming expertise, if you would like > to help with that, drop me a line. My time is going to become limited in the > next few weeks (buying a house in the UK) so don't expect much development for > a little while. > > Jonathan HB9/G4KLX in sunny Zurich > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Joop > -- > > Joop Stakenborg PA4TU, ex-PA3ABA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Linux Hamradio Applications and Utilities Homepage > http://www.casema.net/~aba > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > -- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
