millenium bug

2000-04-12 Thread Patrick_Powers
Message text written by Frank Evans >I can reveal that it is the second "n" in "millennium".< Someone told me that in French it is spelt with one 'n' - no doubt someone on this list will tell me if I am wrong - if not then this 'bug' doesn't travel East! I wonder if this varies in other langua

Re: DeltaCad e-mail attachments

2000-04-12 Thread T.& M. Taudin-Chabot
>Do you know of a way to e-mail DC drawing files to somebody who doesn't have DC? John, The answer is. you guessed it: a DXF file. That why the DXF files are created. DXF stands for Drawing X-change File. Thibaud - Thibaud Taudin

millenium bug

2000-04-12 Thread Frank Evans
Greetings Fellow Dialists, I have discovered the millennium bug. I know its whereabouts. The reason it has escaped detection and why people say they have not encountered it is because they are not looking in the right place. Far from it. You have met it. But it is not in your computer. In fac

Re: A Comment and a Question

2000-04-12 Thread Luke Coletti
Bob, Yes, within the yearly information header of my WWW Solar Calculator (URL below) I report the true obliquity at JAN 1.0 of the year being evaluated (the longitude of perihelion as well as the date/times of the solstices/equinoxes for the year are included too). So if you just need to

Re: A Comment and a Question

2000-04-12 Thread Richard Langley
On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Robert Terwilliger wrote: >Hi All, > >Comment: I think the problem with rotating or skewing text in graphics >files could be solved if the text character entities could be converted >into the vector lines and curves which make them up. I don't think this >is easy to do with T

Re: A Comment and a Question

2000-04-12 Thread Gordon Uber
See "Astronomical Algorithms" by Jean Meeus, pp 135-6. It is recommended for astronomical calculations. The "Astronomical Almanac" probably has values also. The mean obliquity is (defined by the International Astronomical Union): 23 deg 26'21".448 - 46".8150 T - 0.00059 T^2 + 0".001 813 T^3

DeltaCad e-mail attachments

2000-04-12 Thread John Carmichael
Hi Steve and others: It looks like the text printing problem of DC drawings will not be easily solved. That's ok. What's really important is that the print shop is able to make good large copies of everything else. It is pretty easy to cut and paste text onto bond paper or use sticky back tex

Swensen Sundial Web Cam is down

2000-04-12 Thread John Shepherd
The Web Cam on the Swensen Sundial at http://www.uwrf.edu/sundial/welcome.html is temporarily out of action. Unfortunately a severe distruption of power on 6th. April 2000 adversely affected the Web Cam and its associated computer. So far we have been unable to revive them. Thus current pictures

A Comment and a Question

2000-04-12 Thread Robert Terwilliger
Hi All, Comment: I think the problem with rotating or skewing text in graphics files could be solved if the text character entities could be converted into the vector lines and curves which make them up. I don't think this is easy to do with True Type fonts. Question: Is there a source, or value

re: dxf to HP

2000-04-12 Thread T.& M. Taudin-Chabot
As far as I know it is because in a HPGL file the characters are not described using their ASCII value but as a bunch of vectors. So it will always be difficult to see the difference between the character A and three lines drawn in a way that they resemble the character A. Thibaud ... >I myself