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Re: Windows program to reduce sights....
From: Michael Dorl
Date: 2004 Jan 7, 05:52 -0600
From: Michael Dorl
Date: 2004 Jan 7, 05:52 -0600
At 10:47 PM 1/6/04 -0500, you wrote: >In a message dated 1/6/04 3:41:21 PM Eastern Standard Time, >dorl@DOIT.WISC.EDU writes: > > > I'd appreciate hearing from anyone who gives it a test drive. > >Mike: > >I hope to download it and give it a test drive this weekend. I have >evaluated about a dozen and a half programs of this kind (including one of >my own) and >beta tested several. Sounds crazy, but I actually enjoy doing it. > >I get the impression from the distribution notes that the program does not >contain a built-in almanac. Does the user have to extract data from the >Nautical Almanac, or am I simply wrong. I guess I'll find out when I >download it. The program does not contain an almanac, you must supply such data as part of the observation but it will extrapolate from start of year almanac data. >It probably will come as no surprise to you, but the name "Sights" was used >by David O. Jones for a DOS program without a built-in almanac. Pretty tough >to come up with an original descriptive name. > >Stan
