fred@inuxe.UUCP (Fred Mendenhall) (12/10/85)
*** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE *** I'm sorry to use the net like this but several people have sent me mail asking about planet.c and I can't seem to get responce back to them. Planet.c is a program that I posted to net.sources about a month ago. It is written in C and runs fine on our VAX machines. The program ask for the time and date and timezone and will tell you the position of the Sun and the inner planets in terms of the epoch of the supplied date. I'm still working on the outer planets, should be done 1Q86. I personally run the following shell script to feed the system time and date into the program to find the "present" positions. day=`date '+%d'` month=`date '+%m'` year=19`date '+%y'` time=`date '+%H%M'` echo $month >> temp echo $day >> temp echo $year >>temp echo $time >> temp # now input time zone code for EST echo 1 >> temp SS < temp rm temp # SS is the complied run file from the planet.c source code ************************************************************ inuxe!fred