wayne@csri.toronto.edu (Wayne Hayes) (09/11/90)
Archive-name: galaxy-database/10-Sep-90
Original-posting-by: wayne@csri.toronto.edu (Wayne Hayes)
Original-subject: 8000 Galaxy Database and Amiga Executable Available
Archive-site: fed.expres.cs.cmu.edu [128.2.209.58]
Archive-directory: space/data
Reposted-by: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti)
Well, it's been what, 2 months since I announced the 8000 galaxy
database and associated Amiga "flight simulator" to view said data?
I've received numerous requests from Amigans who don't have a C compiler
for the executable. And even for those who *do* have a compiler, I
realized that one of the programs for converting the ASCII database
into binary data (so the simulator can load it *much* faster) was missing.
(Specifically, the one that takes RA / Dec / Radial Velocity and converts
it to cartesian co-ordinates.) And I can't find it anywhere either.
So, now that you've all tried it and failed miserably and probably
don't want to hear another peep out of that bastard who posted the
non-functional-but-sounded-exciting-at-the-time program, he offers
you the binary data file and the Amiga executable.
Once again, the entire distribution is on FED.EXPRES.CS.CMU.EDU
(128.2.209.58). The ASCII data is in the directory space/data. The
source, executable, and binary data file are in the directory
space/inbox. If you have an Amiga, you can just download the files
3-dmr.Z (the executable) and galdat.cartesian.Z (the data file).
Then run the program with the command line:
3-dmr galdat.cartesian
and off you go.
Sorry for the wait. For those of you without FTP access, mail
me and I'll send the uuencoded stuff. Specify what combination of
source, executable, ASCII data and binary data you want.
--
"The number of programs that can be done with the Hubble Space Telescope has
always greatly exceeded the time available for their execution, and this
remains true even with the telescope in its current state." -- HST Science
Working Group and User's Commitee Report, 1990 June 29.
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