David Nicholls wrote: > Chris Rowland wrote: > >>There seems to be a problem with the astorb.dat file, the effect seems >>to be that the Ra of asteroids shown using astorb.dat is about 12 hours out. >> >>This seems to be because the formatting is wrong, possibly because the >>number of characters for the asteroid number changed from 5 characters >>to 6. This was mentioned as causing Y2K type problems but I've not heard >>of a solution. >> >>I fixed it for the first 20 records by manually deleting a space at the >>start of each line but don't fancy doing that for the rest, is there a >>better solution around? >> >>Chris > > > The astorb.dat I just downloaded from lowell.edu has five spaces ahead > of the asteroid numer (eg: > .....1 Ceres etc where '.' is a space. > > Is your file different?
No, exactly the same, that's 6 characters for the number, CDC expects 5. > If you have to change the number of spaces from 6 to 5, MS Word can do > it: use ^p...... (where'.' represents a space character) as the find > string and replace with > ^p..... > (You'll need to edit the first line by hand) > > Or use a decent text editor that knows about Regular Expressions (eg > NoteTab). I'm a software developer, I wrote a program :-) It converts numbers in the range 100000 to 121234 to A0000 to C1234, 1 hex digit for the first two characters, followed by a 4 digit decimal number. Bizarrely CDC can index into these by specifying 6 digit decimal numbers. Chris ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/1.XolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/skychart-discussion/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
